How can I disable startup warning ballons in XP

I have Windows XP and I have 2 or 3 balloons that pop up when I re-boot.

I find them very annoying as I boot up regulalry and I have to close them.

They warn me about Wdows Updates being available and that my Anti virus may be out of date

Can someone help me turn them off via a registry edit ?

Or point me to a tutorial that shows you how to do it ?

Regards

Digby
NZ

What antivirus do you have? You can turn off automatic windows updates by going to Start>>Settings>>Control Panel>>Security Center>>Automatic Updates, and then choose whatever looks best to you, you could turn them off if you want, but you could just have them downloaded automatically and installed. And then it depends what antivirus you have, and we can go from there once you know which one you have.

is this what you want?

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; Disable Security Center (Red Shield Thing)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"AntiVirusDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
"AntiVirusOverride"=dword:00000001
"FirewallDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
"FirewallOverride"=dword:00000001
"FirstRunDisabled"=dword:00000001
"UpdatesDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wscsvc]
"Start"=dword:00000004

; Override Anti-Virus
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"AntiVirusOverride"=dword:00000001

; Override Windows Firewall
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"FirewallOverride"=dword:00000001

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Well color me Mr. Obvious. But why do you ignore WU & AV updates? It's only critical.

Thanks 100%

That is exactly what I wanted.

Hi Zap JB

The reason I want to disable these balloons is that I hate Microsoft's way of baby sitting me. I mean every time I put a CD in it asks me what I want to do with it ! And trying to disable that through XP's options is virtually impossible.

My Anti-virus program AVG advises me on its main screen when there is an update.

I do not want any XP updates mainly cos I have a un-registered copy of it and once again I would like to say when I download an update not when they want to send it to me.

Kind Regards

Digby

OK. I suggest you get VLK. So you can use WU.

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Originally Posted by zapjb

OK. I suggest you get VLK. So you can use WU.

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Thanks I think I know what you mean - I'll see if I can find it !

I did ask Microsoft to trade in my crappy ME but they did not answer me !

Regards

Digby
NZ

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Originally Posted by digmen1

I did ask Microsoft to trade in my crappy ME but they did not answer me !

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:pinch:

I don't blame them
they would lose all revenues for the next decade refunding/exchanging that POS :lol:


and just an idea, but....
instead of a reg edit to stop the security center,
why not just go into the management console to disable it? :huh:

I bet you don't know what the original reg entries were, do you?
(luckily these are fairly basic reg tweaks, and can be reversed w/o too much trouble if needed)
in the MMC you coulda just re-enabled with a few mouse clicks had you ever needed it again
wouldn't be a need for any further reg editing

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Originally Posted by fkdup74

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Originally Posted by digmen1

I did ask Microsoft to trade in my crappy ME but they did not answer me !

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:pinch:

I don't blame them
they would lose all revenues for the next decade refunding/exchanging that POS :lol:


and just an idea, but....
instead of a reg edit to stop the security center,
why not just go into the management console to disable it? :huh:

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Thats what I suggested, but I guess people would rather tamper with their registry.:)

[/QUOTE]
and just an idea, but....
instead of a reg edit to stop the security center,
why not just go into the management console to disable it? :huh:
[/QUOTE]


I did try that a few times, but I was unable to disable it, I can turn various items off but not the whole thing and a balloon comes up each time I reboot.

But based on what you say I will try again.

Regards

Digby

For those 3 ballooon popups all you had to do was go into security center, click 'change the way security center alerts me' (on the left), then uncheck all the boxes.

Better yet to disable security center altogether go to start->run->'services.msc'->disable seccurity cnter service

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Originally Posted by digmen1

I did try that a few times, but I was unable to disable it, I can turn various items off but not the whole thing and a balloon comes up each time I reboot.

But based on what you say I will try again.

Regards

Digby

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it shouldn't give you any shit :unsure:

start > run > type "services.msc" (no quotes)
scroll down to Security Center, double click, hit stop, wait for it to stop, then disable it

-edit- oops, rossco already posted that :blushing:

-edit again- it may give you shit if ICS is running, it may not
not sure, I always have that disabled, like, right after a windows install :P
if you use the windows firewall, you can't disable ICS

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Originally Posted by rossco

For those 3 ballooon popups all you had to do was go into security center, click 'change the way security center alerts me' (on the left), then uncheck all the boxes.

Better yet to disable security center altogether go to start->run->'services.msc'->disable seccurity cnter service

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thanks