In some cases there may be a need to turn off the firewall for certain applications in Windows 7. Though I would not recommend doing this unless you have some kind of firewall solution whether it is software or hardware. But there may certian appliactions were you may need to so. In this video tutorial I will show the process to disable your firewall. Take note that in Windows 7 there is a Public and Private firewall you may want to disable one or the other depending on what your needs are.