Carsten said:
That would have been the way we would love for it to work, but it doesn't.
Clearing all three check-boxes under "Change the way Security Center alerts
me" and setting the firewall settings in Security Center to "Not Monitored"
does nothing, because on the next reboot, Windows has conveniently forgotten
the "I have a firewall solution that I'll monitor myself" setting and the
"Firewall" check-box under Alerts is checked again.
Thus the question for a registry entry.. if anyone has the answer or a
work-around, that would be greatly appreciated!
Hi
Many have reported this problem in the newsgroups, it looks like
a bug in SP2.
Workaround 1:
If the "Change the Way Security Center Notifies Me" doesn't stick
when you reboot, or you want to disable the Security Center totally,
you can do the following:
Start/Run --> services.msc
Find "Security Center" in the list, double click on it, set
"Startup type" to Disabled.
Workaround 2:
howiezows have another way to "fix" this, locking down the permissions
on the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center in
registry.
Take a look here if you still want the Security Center enabled,
and with a setting that survives a reboot:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
I'm a bit reluctant to point to this solution to everybody that have
this problem, because locking down permissions on system files and
system registry keys very often comes back to bite you later on in
upgrade situations (and then you have long gone forgot that you did
this change or you fail to see the connection).
