How to Disable Security Center Warnings in Vista

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in Tips & Tricks

November12th2007

When I started my computer today, I was hit right in the head by the same warning I had since I disabled UAC, but this time I got really annoyed, so I decided to put an end to it. Even if you don't turn off UAC, you can turn off automatic updates and the result is another annoying pop up of the Windows Security Center, and here's how to disable them all...

If you have a popup in sight, right click the icon in the System Tray and then select Open Security Center, but if you already closed that popup, as I did, follow me...

- Press the Start Orb to bring up the Start menu, then type "security" in the search box and then click on Windows Security Center, as you can see below.

- In the Windows Security Center window, click on the text link Change the way Security Center alerts me.

- Choose one of the last two options in the screenshot below by left clicking on it, and it's all done.

One less Vista annoyance, checked. Not bad at all, and I really hope you'll enjoy the result of this trick as much as I will, from now on! Obviously, if you want to revert these changes, simply go through the whole thing again, but choose the first option in the last step. Good luck!