Security Center

Yeah I will give that a go thanks for your help

Your welcome JamieMyHaven. Let us know how it went.

i got these kind of error message while trying to start the services.

Error1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process (Security Center) SBSD Security Center

Error1068: the dependency service or group failed to start. any clue to why is it like this? btw, i dont have the "Change the way security center blablabla..." instead, "Get the latest blablabla.." appears at the very bottom of my left pane. how is it like that? help me. i want the security center disabled and also the annoying red X shield notification to disappear every time windows start. thanks. ps: not that your guide is useless, but in my case that dont seem to help fix the problem. anyway, thanks for writing such guide.

Hi vectorman,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

Check these settings in Services:

1. Right click on the Security Center service and click Properties.

2. Click on the Log On tab.

3. Under Log on as:
A) Dot This account, and make sure it has Local Service in the field.

4. At the bottom, make sure that Undocked Profile is set to Enabled.

5. Click on the Recovery tab.
A) Make sure that Restart the Service is selected for the first and second failure.

6. Click OK.

See if that helps it now,
Shawn

Hi Brink, thansk for the reply. btw, thats not helping in my case though i've research for this security center stuff. and find out that you can disable this annoying red X shield on taskbar by renaming these files wscapi.dll wscsvc.dll wscui.cpl into .bak extension or anything that you desire (i had copied these files in other folder, backup)

vectorman,

I'm glad that you found a way to resolve your problem. Just so you will know to prevent it from happening, since these are system files, they may get restored if you run any kind of System Restore or a sfc /scannow command.

Shawn

Brink,

thought you might like to know - your tutorials are making waves....

Here is a reference that Dumber made to it that solved a poster's problem over at Petri forums:

Firewall not getting enabled - Petri.co.il forums by Daniel Petri

Thank you John for bringing that post to my attention. That was nice of Dumber to refer this tutorial.

Shawn

i think i should use the old thread instead of creating a new thread.
my question is i've done my way of disabling the alert; red X balloon-like at the bottom taskbar tray.

but after i updated to vista Home premium SP1, i get back the alert... you know

i'd like to know is there any way to disable tthe alert besides renaming the three file
wscapi.dll
wscsvc.dll
wscui.cpl

TIA,
shenli

Hi Shenli,

Installing the SP1 resets just about everything in Vista back to default settings. You should be able to just turn it off again like before in this tutorial. Another option is to disable specific items that the Security Center will alert you about.

Security Center Specific Alert Notification

Hope this helps,
Shawn