is it possible to COMPLETELY remove action center?


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This feature has no place for an advanced PC-user and on a laptop that space it takes up sitting on the notification bar could be used for more useful purposes.

I know I can customize the notification area to show/hide icons but that also brings with it yet another icon that takes up valuble taskbar space and it complicates the notification icons with future software installs.

How can I completely remove action center or at the very least PERMANTLY remove it's icon from the notification area??

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Right click taskbar, properties, "customize" under notification area, turn system icons on/off

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voila.. You'll never see it in the tray again.. Hope that is completely and permantly enough.

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Well, I have to disagree that it "has no place for an advanced PC-user." It's one icon, and it's the one central place Windows uses to communicate important alerts to you.

That said, have you turned it off from the "Turn system icons on and off" control panel? (i.e. go to Customize Notification Icons and then click the "Turn system icons on and off" link).

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For such an "advanced user", you obviously don't your way around Windows. That said, AC gives the user plenty of options to keep it quiet in areas you wish it not monitor.

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For such an "advanced user", you obviously don't your way around Windows. That said, AC gives the user plenty of options to keep it quiet in areas you wish it not monitor.

What? Windows has Air Conditioning now? And u claim to know your way around Windows? Pffftttt...

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@ unconnected - thank you.

@ xiphi - I'm just new to Windows 7 :)

Then you have no place making judgments about any features till you learn how to use W7

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Then you have no place making judgments about any features till you learn how to use W7

Aw come on, everyone knows that real advanced users don't need any features at all. Look at me, I'm an advanced user, and my ideal computer is this cardboard box sitting on the floor. No bloat, no AV, no malware, no UAC, no viruses, no fancy graphics, and it lasts forever without a battery. Just plain old minimalistic goodness. :D

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For such an "advanced user", you obviously don't your way around Windows. That said, AC gives the user plenty of options to keep it quiet in areas you wish it not monitor.

Careful Xiphi, not even I understood the way Windows 7 handled the Air Conditioning.

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Aw come on, everyone knows that real advanced users don't need any features at all. Look at me, I'm an advanced user, and my ideal computer is this cardboard box sitting on the floor. No bloat, no AV, no malware, no UAC, no viruses, no fancy graphics, and it lasts forever without a battery. Just plain old minimalistic goodness. :D

You still have to worry about dust and mildew, though. A cube of granite is resistant to those as well and looks stylish to boot. :)

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You still have to worry about dust and mildew, though. A cube of granite is resistant to those as well and looks stylish to boot. :)

Aye, that's true. A block of black marble is quite nice as well. :D

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I think we need a Slimming Down Windows 7 Guide. I mean, if one doesn't use defender and action center, then he or she has a few megabytes of trash in Windows 7 directory. Although, you can find a lot of files on Windows Defender/AC in WinSxS directory and manually remove the trash, it would be nice to have a collaborate effort to remove bloat from 7.

Advanced user here. :)

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Action center rocks. Especially for advanced users.

It lets me know when windows couldnt back up a file or if say a driver crashes or something like that so i dont have to go into event viewer to see.

Have people actuall used it before saying get rid of it?

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I think we need a Slimming Down Windows 7 Guide. I mean, if one doesn't use defender and action center, then he or she has a few megabytes of trash in Windows 7 directory. Although, you can find a lot of files on Windows Defender/AC in WinSxS directory and manually remove the trash, it would be nice to have a collaborate effort to remove bloat from 7.

Advanced user here. :)

Are you serious?

Why bother. Just disable Defender, remove the action center icon, and leave it at that.

For the tiny amount of hard disk space you would reclaim by removing Defender completely, it is hardly worth the hassle.

You even said yourself, "a few megabytes".

I'm all for Microsoft giving Windows Installer options for which components to install. But even if they did that, I couldn't honestly see Action Center being an optional feature, from microsoft standpoint, it looks like an important part of the OS.

Regardless, they didn't give the option, which is a shame. But going in after the fact to delete a few megabytes worth of stuff that you don't want on your disk seems like a wasted effort to me.

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Are you serious?

Why bother. Just disable Defender, remove the action center icon, and leave it at that.

For the tiny amount of hard disk space you would reclaim by removing Defender completely, it is hardly worth the hassle.

You even said yourself, "a few megabytes".

I'm all for Microsoft giving Windows Installer options for which components to install. But even if they did that, I couldn't honestly see Action Center being an optional feature, from microsoft standpoint, it looks like an important part of the OS.

Regardless, they didn't give the option, which is a shame. But going in after the fact to delete a few megabytes worth of stuff that you don't want on your disk seems like a wasted effort to me.

To COMPLETELY remove action center, one is requires to,

- Remove all files pertaining to action center, which are not used for any other component aside from AC.

- Remove any and all references to AC within the registry, as long as it doesn't break any other components.

To hide it and pretend it doesn't exist,

- Hide Icon.

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To COMPLETELY remove action center, one is requires to,

- Remove all files pertaining to action center, which are not used for any other component aside from AC.

- Remove any and all references to AC within the registry, as long as it doesn't break any other components.

To hide it and pretend it doesn't exist,

- Hide Icon.

I know very well that hiding the icon doesn't completely remove action center, I never once claimed that I did.

I claimed that the following is unnecessary hassle:

- Remove all files pertaining to action center, which are not used for any other component aside from AC.

- Remove any and all references to AC within the registry, as long as it doesn't break any other components.

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I think we need a Slimming Down Windows 7 Guide. I mean, if one doesn't use defender and action center, then he or she has a few megabytes of trash in Windows 7 directory. Although, you can find a lot of files on Windows Defender/AC in WinSxS directory and manually remove the trash, it would be nice to have a collaborate effort to remove bloat from 7.

Advanced user here. :)

If you're so strapped for space and memory that you NEED to save that space that, as you call it, the bloat takes up, maybe you should stick to an older OS that doesn't require have the extra drive space and memory requirements.

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If you're so strapped for space and memory that you NEED to save that space that, as you call it, the bloat takes up, maybe you should stick to an older OS that doesn't require have the extra drive space and memory requirements.

This is my hobby actually - my fun tiem, OS tweaking and slimming that is, I do it for the following reasons,

- There are components that I do not use and will never use

- There are components that run and use system resources that I do not use / want

- There are components which are just annoying and thus should be removed

- Components which are necessary should be tweaked such as explorer for maximum comfort

- By default Windows keeps track of your activity and logs waaay too much

- etc.

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Action centre won't ever go away, and it's not for what it's even in my notification area anyways (maybe because I have everything active?)

Regardless, Windows 7 is a lot better at not starting things you don't need, and RAM unused is RAM wasted...

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This is my hobby actually - my fun tiem, OS tweaking and slimming that is, I do it for the following reasons,

- There are components that I do not use and will never use

- There are components that run and use system resources that I do not use / want

- There are components which are just annoying and thus should be removed

- Components which are necessary should be tweaked such as explorer for maximum comfort

- By default Windows keeps track of your activity and logs waaay too much

- etc.

translation: You have too much free time.

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This is my hobby actually - my fun tiem, OS tweaking and slimming that is, I do it for the following reasons,

- There are components that I do not use and will never use

- There are components that run and use system resources that I do not use / want

- There are components which are just annoying and thus should be removed

- Components which are necessary should be tweaked such as explorer for maximum comfort

- By default Windows keeps track of your activity and logs waaay too much

- etc.

Don't you want your system using as many resources as possible, so long as it's not affecting the rest of your work?

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