Disable windows xp security center

I find Spybot to be a useful tool for myself but I won't be recommending it to anymore customers because of this pain in the ass detection rule. Had the same problem. After Spybot's 'clean up', I can't get the limitlessly irritating security center notifications to go away. Every three or four days the little red shield reappears in the task tray and I have to reset the 'don't notify me' option in 'Change the way Security Center alerts me'.

Does anyone know of a permanent - 'don't notify me ever again as long as I live' - fix for this? I hope you don't mind me asking,but,why did you change the way Security Center notifies you? What is Security Center alerting you about? I hope you don't mind ME asking, Zenobia, but have you ever asked yourself what would happen if a ruthless software giant, with total access to its previous customer base of installed platforms through 'automatic updates' were to decide to 'encourage' the sale of their latest white-elephant by making the previous product run just a little bit slower than it needs to?

When you've thought about that, maybe then you could ask me why I am just a little bit reluctant to entrust the 'security' of my system to a company with an actual market interest in the degredation of its performance!!! And BTW, Vista acknowledges the reality of this annoyance by providing a 'don't notify me at all' option in Security Center.

But I would still like to know how to achieve that in XP, if anyone knows. So,apparently,you did mind me asking? PCPlod: If you still what an answer to the following:. Originally Posted by PCPlod. Click Here to join Tek-Tips and talk with other members!

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Students Click Here. Since we already have a 3rd party firewall solution at the hardware level , I do not want the windows based firewall so I went ahead and disabled that. One thing I would like to do is to disable Security Center all together. I do not want the user to view this at all. I have played around with some settings in group policy and have disabled security center, but my client machines show a ballon on boot up: "Your computer might be at risk".

When my users see this message, they seem to panic. How to. Last Updated on July 1, by Karen D Windows operating system comes with a security center alerts that pings you about your important components status. Share 0. Tweet 0. Pin it 0. Author Karen D.