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06-21-2008
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| | Disabling Security Center Alerts 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? |
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06-21-2008
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| | Re: Disabling Security Center Alerts "Dilip" <rdilipk@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@xxxxxx Quote: > > 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? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\Svc and then under your unique-numbered key. The three states are 0, 1 or 2. |
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06-21-2008
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| | Re: Disabling Security Center Alerts On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > "Dilip" <rdil...@xxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@xxxxxx > Quote: > > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no > > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script? Quote: > > 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. Quote: > > 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. 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. |
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06-22-2008
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| | Re: Disabling Security Center Alerts "Dilip" <rdilipk@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:594ab5dc-5ee1-4f09-bb17-2d7c93e4af4d@xxxxxx Quote: > On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >> "Dilip" <rdil...@xxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@xxxxxx >> Quote: >> > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no >> > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script? Quote: >> > 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. Quote: >> > 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. 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. |
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06-22-2008
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| | Re: Disabling Security Center Alerts On Jun 22, 3:48 am, "Dave-UK" <1...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > "Dilip" <rdil...@xxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:594ab5dc-5ee1-4f09-bb17-2d7c93e4af4d@xxxxxx Quote: > > On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > >> "Dilip" <rdil...@xxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@xxxxxx Quote: Quote: > >> > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no > >> > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script? Quote: Quote: > >> > 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. Quote: Quote: > >> > Does anyone know? Quote: Quote: > >> 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. Quote: > > 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. 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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