Disable Security Center in Windows XP SP2

[Larney]

Ok, recently I was told how to do this by a friend as if you dont set one thing right or the way Microsoft inflict you to it will constantly infect you with the abusingly annoying red icon at the bottom of your screen. I, for one, like to keep my taskbar free of clutter of icons and I also like to have control over when and if I decided to isntall and anti-virus, firewall and check for updates.

So, here it is..the instructions on how to remove it...this comes from a post I made in this thread (https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=243086&hl=) and I thought more people might like to know how to do it...

1) Click on the Start button and navigate to : Control Panel - > Administrative Tools -> Services

2) Find Security Center in the list of services

3) Right click it and select Properties

4) Click the Stop button and make sure the drop down menu is set to Disabled

There, your done, its now disabled :)

[Dark Ride]

I say it again .... THANKS :yes:

[Larney]

LOL, the only person responding, oh well its here now :\

[demorgoron]

LOL, the only person responding, oh well its here now :\

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its alright,but its not like you discovered something we dont know :)

[Coffeee]

Ta mate, nice guide for those that didnt know how to do that :) just out of interest, how much ram does the security centre use?

[ZZOOzzoo]

After disabling it I found my booting time got really fast.

[j.r.l.]

Thx, good fix :)

[JessC]

My computer just got faster after I disabled Security Center :)

[greg098]

i didnt notice any difference in speed

[amdme3200]

Same here but my slower pc's got a bit of a boost.

[allfive6]

Disabling Security Center is ok but does not really made a diff. If you really want to see improvement in preformance disable system restore

[EZRecovery]

Thanks Larney :)

[LonghornMadBoy]

My sistem goes faster after this tweak :)

[Spyder Veteran]

disabling the service is a rather extreme way to get rid of the little red icon in the systray, don't you think? Alternatively, you can just go into security center, click on "change the way security center alerts me" on the left, and then uncheck the items you don't want to be bothered about.

[xXTOKERXx]

Yes but then what would the point of having the service running if you really dont want it to load??

[alan8it]

Really helpful. That program really bugs me.

[soldier1st]

or use xplite to remove the security center background service

[Makeshift Hammer]

You see....it's threads like this that lead people to come back a week later saying "xp is (digression from this quote : excuse me while i render myself senseless, i'm not actually stupid enough to speak this way, so forgive me if i get my "leetisms" wrong) teh 5ux, i have 586743976234 v1ruses and am being hacked up the 455" therefore giving XP and not its users a bad name.

Why don't you just fix the problem you are being warned about?

[Ghatak]

yeha done

[Larney]

You see....it's threads like this that lead people to come back a week later saying "xp is (digression from this quote : excuse me while i render myself senseless, i'm not actually stupid enough to speak this way, so forgive me if i get my "leetisms" wrong) teh 5ux, i have 586743976234 v1ruses and am being hacked up the 455" therefore giving XP and not its users a bad name. 

Why don't you just fix the problem you are being warned about?

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Say again in English. Also try and use proper punctuation?

[OxideNOS]

perfect guide i wanted.. thanks man.

[funkycop]

you can disable the ballontips as well :

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Modify or create DWORD value EnableBalloonTips and give it 0

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