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A third-party firewall is recommended because they can be more user friendly when it comes to automatically approving known programs.
The WFC scenario I was talking about is when you change the Windows Firewall setting for outbound connections from the default allow to block. You would only do this when you want full control of everything that connects from your PC.
In this scenario it can be very difficult to configure the firewall rules without the help of a program like WFC. Depending on WFC settings you can get alerts for every blocked connection, and from that alert customize it(protocol, port, remote address etc) and create either a temporary or permanent rule. In the alert you can see exactly what connection(s) a program tries to establish, see if and who has signed the program, and you also have options to check the file on Virustotal, get info on the remote IP, check it for blacklistings etc.
Without WFC and only using Windows Firewall, the user gets no help what so ever with this.
But as I said before: This is an advanced task and only recommended for experienced users.
PS. There is another program out there with the same name so to clarify: I'm talking about Windows Firewall Control by BiniSoft.