Using Windows Firewall Rules in your Regional Language

[garlin]

There are several online guides, which help explain how to enable Windows Firewall rules to allow Network Discovery (file sharing), or Remote Desktop access.

You might see commands like:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Network Discovery" new enable=Yes
powershell Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Remote Desktop'

Unfortunately, the group names ("Network Discovery") are very different if your regional language isn't English. Instead you can substitute a static rule value, or use PowerShell to search for the translated group name.

Network Discovery:
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="@FirewallAPI.dll,-32752" new enable=Yes

Remote Desktop:
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="@FirewallAPI.dll,-28752" new enable=Yes

en-US:

Get-NetFirewallRule | where { $_.Group -match '-32752|-28752' } | select -Unique DisplayGroup,Group

DisplayGroup      Group               
------------      -----               
Network Discovery @FirewallAPI.dll,-32752
Remote Desktop    @FirewallAPI.dll,-28752

fr-FR:

Get-NetFirewallRule | where { $_.Group -match '-32752|-28752' } | select -Unique DisplayGroup,Group

DisplayGroup        Group               
------------        -----               
Recherche du réseau @FirewallAPI.dll,-32752
Bureau à distance   @FirewallAPI.dll,-28752

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Recherche du réseau" new enable=Yes
powershell Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Bureau à distance'

 

[garlin]

takeown is another command affected by your regional language. /d y or "Yes to confirm" is English-specific. This command option fails in most other regions because a positive answer is a different word, like:

/d oui (French)
/d ja (German)
/d si (Spanish)

To understand what's should be the correct first letter, run the choice command.

choice <NUL 2>NUL
[Y,N]?

Batch command:

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=[,]" %%a in ('"choice <nul 2>nul"') do set "yes=%%a"
takeown /r /d %yes% /f random_file

PowerShell:

$Yes = (Out-Null | choice 2> Out-Null).Substring(1,1)
takeown /r /d $Yes /f random_file