Guest Dilip Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 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? Quote
Guest Dave-UK Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 "Dilip" <rdilipk@lycos.com> wrote in message news:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...<span style="color:blue"> > > 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?</span> 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
Guest Dilip Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... ><span style="color:green"> > > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no > > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?</span> ><span style="color:green"> > > 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.</span> ><span style="color:green"> > > Does anyone know?</span> > > You'll find the info here: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSecurity CenterSvc > and then under your unique-numbered key. > The three states are 0, 1 or 2.</span> 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. Quote
Guest Dave-UK Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 2008 "Dilip" <rdilipk@lycos.com> wrote in message news:594ab5dc-5ee1-4f09-bb17-2d7c93e4af4d@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...<span style="color:blue"> > On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:<span style="color:green"> >> "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... >><span style="color:darkred"> >> > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no >> > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?</span> >><span style="color:darkred"> >> > 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.</span> >><span style="color:darkred"> >> > Does anyone know?</span> >> >> You'll find the info here: >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSecurity CenterSvc >> and then under your unique-numbered key. >> The three states are 0, 1 or 2.</span> > > 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.</span> 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. Quote
Guest Dilip Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 2008 On Jun 22, 3:48 am, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:594ab5dc-5ee1-4f09-bb17-2d7c93e4af4d@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...<span style="color:green"> > > On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, "Dave-UK" <1...@2.com> wrote:<span style="color:darkred"> > >> "Dilip" <rdil...@lycos.com> wrote in messagenews:83cb4b3b-05cc-45ee-970e-2606723c4029@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...</span></span> ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> > >> > Is it possible to disable the Security Center Alerts on Vista (no > >> > icon, no notifications) via command line or by script?</span></span> ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> > >> > 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.</span></span> ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> > >> > Does anyone know?</span></span> ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> > >> You'll find the info here: > >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSecurity CenterSvc > >> and then under your unique-numbered key. > >> The three states are 0, 1 or 2.</span></span> ><span style="color:green"> > > 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.</span> > > 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.</span> 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? Quote
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