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I don’t understand something here. You don’t have to allow any outgoing connections in the standard Windows 7 Firewall. They are all allowed by default unless you have gone into the advanced and very complicated settings, something I don’t plan on ever doing. The rules created by W7FC for system files are not invisible at all. You can see them clearly in the interface. As I understand it, if you have a block rule in either the standard firewall or W7FC, it will take precedence over anything else.
There is no form of HIPS in W7FC. As for the other questions, I have no idea since I don’t concern myself with such advanced things. I’m perfectly happy with the defaults of both the standard Win 7 Firewall and the free W7FC.