XP SP2 Update Annoyances

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Travis King

I keep getting the yellow shield all the time. It keeps coming on today
with the same update each time for the Flash Player (KB913433) It's the
same number every time, and I can no more than finish it before it bothers
me saying there are updates for it again. Then, when I go to update it,
it's the same KB913433 again. It keeps doing this repeatedly. I'm also
tired of restarting my computer every time there's an update. (Well, most
of the time.) However, if I disable Automatic Updates, then I get warnings
about my computer being at risk. It's extremely annoying, so is there
anyway that I can do away with this annoying update or better yet, is there
a way to disable the security center so it will no longer bother me? I know
what I'm doing, so I don't need to be warned everytime I do something on the
computer. Thanks.
 
Open the Security Center and click Change the way the Security Center alerts me.
 
Never mind, I just went ahead and went into services.msc and set the
Security Center to disabled.
 
I changed the security center back to Automatic via services.msc and did
what you said. That'll work better. I was more technical than I had to be.
Open the Security Center and click Change the way the Security Center alerts
me.
 
Travis said:
I changed the security center back to Automatic via services.msc and did
what you said. That'll work better. I was more technical than I had to be.
Open the Security Center and click Change the way the Security Center alerts
me.
Click to expand...

If you think XP SP2 is bad, it really is nothing compared to Vista.
Thank gosh it's still in beta, but I really hope they find a way to give
it the security it needs w/o bugging the user all the time. It asks you
permission to run every program, so the pop-ups are constant. Alot
worse than just the security center in XP. Oh, and Vista has a security
center too, but it also monitors anti-spyware, so it has extra things to
bug you about which are not as easy to turn off. (I just installed the
beta copy I have from our Technet plus subscrition, and I have not yet
been able to figure out how to turn off the security center nag.)
 
Same place, Security Center. You can turn off all Security Center alerts, or customize what alerts it will show.

For the nags about "allowing access to programs", Start, Run and enter MSCONFIG Go to Tools, you'll find the command line to turn off UAP. Highlight it and click Launch. Reboot.
 
Visit : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913433
and follow the instructions for a WORKAROUND.

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| I keep getting the yellow shield all the time. It keeps coming on today
| with the same update each time for the Flash Player (KB913433) It's the
| same number every time, and I can no more than finish it before it bothers
| me saying there are updates for it again. Then, when I go to update it,
| it's the same KB913433 again. It keeps doing this repeatedly. I'm also
| tired of restarting my computer every time there's an update. (Well, most
| of the time.) However, if I disable Automatic Updates, then I get warnings
| about my computer being at risk. It's extremely annoying, so is there
| anyway that I can do away with this annoying update or better yet, is there
| a way to disable the security center so it will no longer bother me? I know
| what I'm doing, so I don't need to be warned everytime I do something on the
| computer. Thanks.
 
Doug said:
Same place, Security Center. You can turn off all Security Center alerts,
or customize what alerts it will show.
Click to expand...

Where? I look through the security center and did not see "change the
way security center alerts you". I'll need to look again.
For the nags about "allowing access to programs", Start, Run and enter
MSCONFIG Go to Tools, you'll find the command line to turn off UAP.
Highlight it and click Launch. Reboot.
Click to expand...

Thanks! Turning off UAP will really help. :)
 
Same place, Security Center. You can turn off all Security Center
How do you KEEP them turned off?

I have to turn mine off regularly. At random, they reset to all boxes
checked and I have to uncheck them again.
 
I don't have a Vista PC that I can get to right now, but the option should be on the left hand side of the Security Center window, as I recall.
 
I'll see how truly annoying that is in Vista when I get the public beta here
probably some time this month. (I'm *guessing* around the 24th.) I've
heard others complain about these warnings in Vista as well. If it's going
to be bothering me about having permission to run something all the time,
UAP will be off in no time. I've got an Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8x
(256MB), so that should be a very good card for glass. I had an NVIDIA
Geforce FX5600 that I was going to use for Vista, but before I had it for
not even a month, it quit, and so I decided to get a higher up video card.
(In comparison with the FX5600.) I heard the FX5600 and similar GPUs get a
little slow with Aero Glass when the resolution's above 1024x768, anyway,
but I guess, I should save all the Vista discussions because this is an XP
newsgroup. (And I do see that you're in the Vista newsgroup as well.) How
well is your 9800 PRO running Aero Glass in Vista? I also have an Audigy
soundcard, but mine's not an Audigy 2. I'll see you around in the Vista NG.
 
There is no KB913433 on any Microsoft web site nor does Google turn up
anything. What does it really say?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Do you mean KB/913433? See Carey's answer.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Travis said:
I'll see how truly annoying that is in Vista when I get the public beta here
probably some time this month. (I'm *guessing* around the 24th.) I've
heard others complain about these warnings in Vista as well. If it's going
to be bothering me about having permission to run something all the time,
UAP will be off in no time. I've got an Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8x
(256MB), so that should be a very good card for glass. I had an NVIDIA
Geforce FX5600 that I was going to use for Vista, but before I had it for
not even a month, it quit, and so I decided to get a higher up video card.
(In comparison with the FX5600.) I heard the FX5600 and similar GPUs get a
little slow with Aero Glass when the resolution's above 1024x768, anyway,
but I guess, I should save all the Vista discussions because this is an XP
newsgroup. (And I do see that you're in the Vista newsgroup as well.) How
well is your 9800 PRO running Aero Glass in Vista? I also have an Audigy
soundcard, but mine's not an Audigy 2. I'll see you around in the Vista NG.
Click to expand...

Please see reply in the Vista general group.


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AGP 8X ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Soundblaster Audigy 2

Triple Boot (all 32 bit):
Fedora Core 4
Vista 5308
XP SP2
 
Apparently. I was just getting a security update for Flash Player over and
over again with the same size of 543KB and the same KB/913433 every time.
I'd get done installing the update, then within five to ten seconds, the
yellow shield would come back and say that there were updates for my
computer again, and sure enough, it was the same thing again.
 
I changed the security center back to Automatic via services.msc and did
what you said. That'll work better. I was more technical than I had to be.
Open the Security Center and click Change the way the Security Center alerts
me.
Click to expand...

Umm, if you've set it to auto you're just asking it to keep telling
you! Turn it off, tell Bill Gates to mind his own bloody businesss -
it's *YOUR* machine and *YOU'LL* decide what, when and which updates
are applied!!
 
John said:
How do you KEEP them turned off?

I have to turn mine off regularly. At random, they reset to all boxes
checked and I have to uncheck them again.
Click to expand...

Just a thought, are you using Spybot Search and Destroy? When scanning
it will flag the registry settings for Security Center you've made as
problems and if you don't uncheck them; if you blindly have Spybot S&D
fix everything they will revert to defaults.

Steve N.
 
Just a thought, are you using Spybot Search and Destroy? When scanning it
will flag the registry settings for Security Center you've made as
problems and if you don't uncheck them; if you blindly have Spybot S&D fix
everything they will revert to defaults.
Click to expand...

Yes, I do use Spybot S&D regularly.

I had no idea that it had any effect on the Security Center settings. Any
idea why it does?

Thanks for the tip. I'll keep an eye out for that.
 
Because many malware programs will target the settings so they can disable the warnings. That way they can kill your firewall and or AV software and you might not notice it.
 
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