Turn off XP SP2 Security Center Alerts

[ikonia]

Hi,

Just updated a friends machine with XP 2.

I keep getting little alerts warning me that the firewall is turned off....I know this, I turned it off. I want it off ! leave me alone microsoft.

How do I stop it bugging the user every time he logs in ?

thanks

[Agent]

Paste this into a *.reg file and run it

REGEDIT4

;Disable Windows Firewall Taskbar Notifications 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center] 
"FirewallDisableNotify"=dword:00000001

Done

[ikonia]

nicely done.

thanks

[Tomahawk]

I have been wondering how to do this also! Thanks!

[Jimmy Little]

can't you just select it in cp?

[Kezzer]

Yeh you can turn it off in the control panel lol but whatever floats your boat

[Tomahawk]

Yeh you can turn it off in the control panel lol but whatever floats your boat

Lol oh yeah! just had a look!. . Although its not very obvious!

[Atomic]

Lol oh yeah! just had a look!. . Although its not very obvious!

What to tell it I will monitor it myself, not that hard Id say...

[Tomahawk]

What to tell it I will monitor it myself, not that hard Id say...

No thats easy! But that doesn't get rid of the alerts on start-up!

As it starts saying windows is not monitoring your Anti-virus etc etc. . I meant on the left hand side of the Security center there is all help files listed (And questions) then one before bottom if you click it gives you the option to turn off balloon messages. . And soo I just thought that it wasn't very clear as its small blue writing and all the others are help. Plus instead of saying 'Options' or something similar it says Change the way Security Center alerts me. .