Disabling Security Center Alerts

[Dilip]

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?

 

[Dilip]

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]

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?