Disabling Security Center Alerts

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Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no
icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?

Turning off UAC by modifying a certain registry entry turned out to be
easy (using the reg.exe command line utility), however I can't find a
way to do the same for the Security Center Alerts. I am willing to
write some scripting code if that is what it takes.

Does anyone know?
 
Dilip754414 Wrote:
> Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no
> icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?
>
> Turning off UAC by modifying a certain registry entry turned out to be
> easy (using the reg.exe command line utility), however I can't find a
> way to do the same for the Security Center Alerts. I am willing to
> write some scripting code if that is what it takes.
>
> Does anyone know?
Hello Dilip,
Forgive me if I appear to be condescending.
In the hands of experienced and competent users, turning off Security
Center is not a big deal. They know how to take care of the computer's
security.
Conversely, in the hands of inexperienced and unknowledgeable users,
the integrity of the computer is in dire danger.
You do not belong to the former if you had to ask this question.
That, sir, is probably why you have yet to get anyone to answer your
question.
It's like going through the metal detectors, getting baggages checked
in the airport. It's annoying, but neccessary for security.
I apologize if I have offended you.


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t-4-2
 
"Dilip" <rdilipk@lycos.com> wrote in message news:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no
> icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?
>
> Turning off UAC by modifying a certain registry entry turned out to be
> easy (using the reg.exe command line utility), however I can't find a
> way to do the same for the Security Center Alerts. I am willing to
> write some scripting code if that is what it takes.
>
> Does anyone know?

You'll find the info here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\Svc
and then under your unique-numbered key.
The three states are 0, 1 or 2.
 
On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:
> "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no
> > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?
>
> > Turning off UAC by modifying a certain registry entry turned out to be
> > easy (using the reg.exe command line utility), however I can't find a
> > way to do the same for the Security Center Alerts. I am willing to
> > write some scripting code if that is what it takes.
>
> > Does anyone know?
>
> You'll find the info here:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\Svc
> and then under your unique-numbered key.
> The three states are 0, 1 or 2.

Thanks Dave. I knew this key but there was a reason why I asked this
question. Initially that hive underneath Svc is empty. The unique-
numbered key is generated the first time I try to make any
modification to the security center settings. What this means is I
cannot write any general purpose utility to turn this on/off ahead of
time, right? because I don't know what algorithm Vista is using to
generate that key.
 
"Dilip" <rdilipk@lycos.com> wrote in message news:594ab5dc-5ee1-4f09-bb17-2d7c93e4af4d@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:
>> "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no
>> > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?
>>
>> > Turning off UAC by modifying a certain registry entry turned out to be
>> > easy (using the reg.exe command line utility), however I can't find a
>> > way to do the same for the Security Center Alerts. I am willing to
>> > write some scripting code if that is what it takes.
>>
>> > Does anyone know?
>>
>> You'll find the info here:
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\Svc
>> and then under your unique-numbered key.
>> The three states are 0, 1 or 2.
>
> Thanks Dave. I knew this key but there was a reason why I asked this
> question. Initially that hive underneath Svc is empty. The unique-
> numbered key is generated the first time I try to make any
> modification to the security center settings. What this means is I
> cannot write any general purpose utility to turn this on/off ahead of
> time, right? because I don't know what algorithm Vista is using to
> generate that key.

The 36 digit number is the user number, already generated in HKEY_Users.
You need to identify the user and read the number from there.
I have only one number as I am the only user of my machine,
I don't know about multiple accounts.
 
On Jun 22, 3:48 am, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:
> "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:594ab5dc-5ee1-4f09-bb17-2d7c93e4af4d@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> > On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:
> >> "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> >> > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no
> >> > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?
>
> >> > Turning off UAC by modifying a certain registry entry turned out to be
> >> > easy (using the reg.exe command line utility), however I can't find a
> >> > way to do the same for the Security Center Alerts. I am willing to
> >> > write some scripting code if that is what it takes.
>
> >> > Does anyone know?
>
> >> You'll find the info here:
> >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\Svc
> >> and then under your unique-numbered key.
> >> The three states are 0, 1 or 2.
>
> > Thanks Dave. I knew this key but there was a reason why I asked this
> > question. Initially that hive underneath Svc is empty. The unique-
> > numbered key is generated the first time I try to make any
> > modification to the security center settings. What this means is I
> > cannot write any general purpose utility to turn this on/off ahead of
> > time, right? because I don't know what algorithm Vista is using to
> > generate that key.
>
> The 36 digit number is the user number, already generated in HKEY_Users.
> You need to identify the user and read the number from there.
> I have only one number as I am the only user of my machine,
> I don't know about multiple accounts.

Beautiful!!! I can check this only on Monday since I don't have a
Vista machine handy but what hive under HKEY_Users is this user number
found? I know I can figure this out tomorrow but I am trying to get
myself prepared with as much as I can possibly learn from you (-)) so
that all I will have to do tomorrow is to crank out an app that can
turn off the alerts. That way I can probably meet the Tuesday release
deadline.

BTW, I noticed that under the Svc\user-generated-number, there are
actually 2 string values: EnableNotifications and
EnableNotificationsRef. EnableNotifications is what is used to
trigger the 3 different options (icon - no/notifications - no, icon -
yes/notifications - no, icon - yes/notifications - yes). The latter
key is used to bump the count by 1 everytime a change is made to the
security center options.

Have I got that right?
 
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