title: Avoiding a Windows Firewall popup
body: <p>My organisation produces a suite of Windows applications that make use of networking, and so when users run our software for the first time, the Windows Firewall (if it is running) brings up a pop-up, informing the user that our app(s) are trying to use the network, prompting the user to allow or deny access.</p>
  
  <p>This occurs with plenty of other apps (Spotify, to give one example), but ee'd like to prevent these popups from happening, as they can be a bit problematic for our users. Some Applications (MSN Messenger, GoogeTalk) operate without ever causing the Firewall to alert the user, and we'd like to do the same.</p>
  
  <p>We've successfully done this on Windows XP by having our installer write appropriate registry keys at:</p>
  
  <p>HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List</p>
  
  <p>However, this does not have the same effect on Windows 7 - the Firewall popups still take place. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas how we can do this? (Our installers and software are all digitally signed.)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  Tom Davies</p>