Profile behavior

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Hello,

I’m very confused with the behavior of profiles and I’m hoping someone can help me out.

I have two profiles:
Default - normal at home usage, set to "Ask to Connect:
Mobile - for hotspot usage, blocks almost everything, set to “Ask to Connect”

If I have the ‘Mobile’ profile selected and a new program tries to connect, I get the prompt from GW and select ‘Deny’. Looking at the rules I see the program listed in the Blocked section.

If I later switch to the ‘Default’ profile and that same program tries to connect, it is allowed to do so with no prompt from GW and I find the program is listed in the ‘Active’ section.

My understanding is the profiles operate independently of each other - why do I not get a prompt for the second profile ‘Default’ which is also set to “Ask to Connect”.

Thanks,

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Make sure after setting to default mode that you save your changes, otherwise it won’t prompt you to ‘ask to connect’. Hope that helps. :grinning:

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Thank you for the reply. I’m on the latest version for Windows and I don’t see a way to explicitly save changes - there are no buttons. After changing the Firewall Mode for a profile, the selection itself shows a busy/processing animation and then goes away. I was assuming that the change was being committed at that time.