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Services Connectivity
Can someone tell me what windows services and programs absolutely have to have an internet connection in order for network connectivity to function properly? I'm trying to setup Windows Firewall to work well with the home network I'm using. It uses wpa2 encryption, but when I join a network profile (public,home,work) setting the rules for the 'stock' rule sets to require at least secure communication as authentication and integrity, I can't get a connection. I'm also confused as to whether I have to use both ipv4 and ipv6 protocols. the network diagnostic prompted me that secure sockets needed to have a proper configuration to work correctly, and so I had to unblock that but I was unable to test whether or not allowing it to utilize secure measures would further block the connection because after SstSvc & a generic rule I created to prevent network access until I could configure the filewall, which blocked all incoming and outgoing connections for all programs, the only thing diagnostic would tell me is that the DNS server wouldn't respond. I set the adapter and connection to connect even if there was no SSID broadcast, but I'm unsure of what that even is, although it sounded accurate :/. So in short, I'm using Online Armor free firewall, and to be honest it seems like a good program, this is the third time I've installed it. This round though I noticed that svchost.exe was transfering small packets, 6/B, and I can't even understand why svchost or system require network connectivity, it appears to me as though those functions should be seperated by development coding.
-can someone tell me what services I absolutely need to provide with internet connection in order to maintain network connectivity while using Windows Firewall?
I'd rather not use a third party software program at this point.