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Howto: Disable Windows Security Center Balloon Warning
by FrosT
Introduction
Do you ever get annoyed with the Windows Security Center Pop-Up telling you that you are not protected because you do not have any Anti-Virus Software, or Automatic Updates is turned off? Well so was I. That is why I searched the internet for the answer and I finally found it. In light of that here are detailed instructions on how to disable those Balloon hint tips from the Windows Security Center.
Removing Annoying Balloon Pop-Up
In order to remove the annoying balloon pop-up from windows security center we need to follow these steps exactly. Click on the Windows Start button. Next click on either Programs or All Programs and from there click on Accessories and than to System Tools. Click on Security Center which should pull up the Windows Security Center window which shows the Anti-Virus, Windows Update and Windows Firewall.
Look to the left hand side, you will see a Resources pane. Once you find the Resource pane in the Windows Security Center window click on the "Change the way Security Center alerts me." A Window will appear with multiple check boxes which allow you to choose what you want to be alerted on. My personal setting is un-checking all, Windows Firewall, Anti-Virus and Windows Update. If you leave any of these boxes checked Windows Security Center will alert you if you disable that item. For example, if I do not un-check Windows Firewall, and I find out that my Router has a built in firewall that works 100times better than Windows Firewall ever will and I decide that I do not need that on, the second I turn off Windows Firewall a red security shield will come up on my taskbar displaying a balloon hint that states something like I am un-protected and click here to protect yourself.
Following those simple steps you can choose what to be notified on and what not to be notified on.
Ending Notes
I hate Windows telling me what to do. I am glad Windows Security Center has the option to disable these alerts, as the Security Center alerts annoy me. Whether you want to choose to have it alert you for one item instead of 3 this tutorial should help you accomplish your goal of being less annoying by Windows Security Center.
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Posted by rain_drop on September 28th, 2006
"change the way security center alerts me" is a light gray color for me...not allowing me to click on it to change it. :/
Posted by frost on September 28th, 2006
I find that if it is greyed out that means it should not be alerting you. Can anyone verify this?
--FrosT
Posted by anonymous on October 09th, 2006
Oh.. Oh my.. Im an idiot.
Posted by anonymous on October 17th, 2006
Thanky you so much. that god damn balloon is banished forever
Posted by david on October 17th, 2006
Yay! Another statisfied user! Thanks for the information.
Posted by anonymous on November 02nd, 2006
If its grey you might not have Admin rights to mess with that feature. Or u have nothing to be alerted about.
Posted by anonymous on November 16th, 2006
Thanks for pinting out where those little tick boxes were. I was getting ready for a REG hack :-)
Posted by anonymous on January 09th, 2007
Thankyou very much. The baloon is now DEAD
Posted by anonymous on January 21st, 2007
Thanks a lot. U saved my days
Posted by anonymous on January 29th, 2007
yes, google and teh internets solve my problems yet again...
Posted by anonymous on January 29th, 2007
Can anyone help me .. on the bottom right of my screen a ballon appears above a red cirle with a white x in it, with the words your computer is intected. It isnt, i have used a number of programmes and they have found nothing, but i cant get rid of this ballon .... help
Posted by frost on January 29th, 2007
You have spyware buddy, sucks for you.
--FrosT
Posted by anonymous on February 03rd, 2007
Dude... Thanks a lot!!! The baloon is gone!!!
Posted by anonymous on February 06th, 2007
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Posted by anonymous on February 17th, 2007
BRILLIANT SAVED ME SMASHING MY FOOKIN PC UP
Posted by anonymous on February 24th, 2007
thanks a lota man !
Posted by anonymous on February 27th, 2007
nice 1
Posted by anonymous on March 08th, 2007
Thanks for the post!!!
Posted by anonymous on March 12th, 2007
Thanks Very Much!!!!
I have been trying to kill this forever, nothing but another Microsuck annoyance feature.
Posted by anonymous on March 23rd, 2007
im not sure if it works, but I hope so and thank you !!!
Posted by anonymous on April 02nd, 2007
Good tiP ns it worked just fine. Thanks!
Posted by anonymous on April 19th, 2007
WORK 100% FINE,, thanks!
Posted by anonymous on April 21st, 2007
well...if greyed out means it shouldnt be telling me anything....why am i receiving stupid little wanrings? somewhere there has to be another way to disable this garbage
Posted by anonymous on May 05th, 2007
finally this annoying thing is gone
Posted by anonymous on May 06th, 2007
Thank you man! I KILLED THA F***ING BALOOON! Peace!
Posted by anonymous on June 13th, 2007
haha, wonderful. this one was so easy I completely overlooked it. Thanks a bunch!
Posted by anonymous on June 24th, 2007
Thank you for helping me kill the annoying warning ballon. and thanks to google for helping me find this site.
Posted by anonymous on July 04th, 2007
gud work buddy!!
Posted by anonymous on July 07th, 2007
hats off to u
Posted by anonymous on July 17th, 2007
Thanks a lot. The balloon was really annoying. Thanks to your tip its gone.
Posted by anonymous on August 16th, 2007
man i tried everything unchecked the 3 options . but still der is this icon in system tray blinking . nd pops up saying u have varuious spyware applications running . kindly click da ballon to donload a spyware protection . i have spybot search and destroy as wel as spyware doctor installed nd running side by side. i have Mc afe anti virus running but stil it says . antivirus not found !
please help !
Posted by anonymous on August 20th, 2007
hey man hats off to you mind blowing . it was very irritating that red ballon atlast got rid off it
Posted by anonymous on September 26th, 2007
Thanks, finally getting rid of that annoying message balloon every time i start up my pc....
======= Ray
Posted by anonymous on October 18th, 2007
Thanks a bunch. Appreciate the information. Worked like a charm.
Posted by anonymous on October 22nd, 2007
Thank you. I left only Firewall checked, because it knows my own firewall is working. The icon disappeared -- thanks for getting rid of that annoying balloon.
demax
Posted by anonymous on October 30th, 2007
what happens if you dont have security center?? methid45@excite.com
Posted by anonymous on November 04th, 2007
Thanks Sir for the much needed help
Posted by anonymous on November 06th, 2007
Hi!
Thank you very much for your tip! That's very helpful.
Posted by anonymous on November 07th, 2007
This still wont kill waring when you open an uncertified exe over a network ;(
Posted by anonymous on November 21st, 2007
right! stupid me
Posted by anonymous on December 08th, 2007
finaly s smart person who knows their shi-t
thanks
Posted by anonymous on December 16th, 2007
thank you is the least i could say
Posted by anonymous on December 22nd, 2007
Thanks.
Posted by anonymous on December 22nd, 2007
Thanks a lot mate, The fucking ballon finally disappeaered!
Posted by anonymous on December 25th, 2007
COOL!!!
Posted by anonymous on December 31st, 2007
Thanks, man!
Posted by anonymous on December 31st, 2007
oh! god, finally killed the damned balon
Posted by anonymous on January 06th, 2008
tks
Posted by anonymous on January 25th, 2008
thanks dude!!!
Posted by anonymous on January 29th, 2008
Thanks Mate .... stopped me from searching
Posted by anonymous on February 19th, 2008
Thanks telling me. I am grateful.
Posted by anonymous on March 01st, 2008
HAHAHAHA BALLOON YOUR LIFE IS FORFEIT!
Posted by anonymous on March 07th, 2008
Thanks Dude...!!, Finally I got rid of that f***in ballon on my system tray. It was irritating me like anything.
Frost..!!!, Thank u again buddy...
- JD -
Posted by anonymous on March 08th, 2008
U r the man...Thanks
Posted by anonymous on March 12th, 2008
Works perfect for me, i used to do it threw reg edit, don't know why i didn't do the obvious thing and go this route.
Thanks for the tip.
Posted by anonymous on April 01st, 2008
Thank you so much. The balloon just ticks me off.
Posted by anonymous on April 08th, 2008
thanxx alot man that was brilliant from u and ridiculous from windows..
Posted by anonymous on April 16th, 2008
Oh yessss! finally those annoying feature is banished, hahahahaha... THANK YOU bro!!!
Posted by anonymous on April 18th, 2008
snaps to you buddy!! lemme buy you a drink!
i was so close... yet so far... (*o*)
Posted by anonymous on April 22nd, 2008
thank you so much, that damn balloon had annoyed me so much and at last i solved this problem with your help! thank you!!!
Posted by anonymous on April 23rd, 2008
Ha ha - as easy as that! I was expecting some clever hack. Thanks - I can't believe i've put up with it all this time : )
Posted by anonymous on April 26th, 2008
Thanks
Posted by anonymous on May 08th, 2008
Thanks much
Posted by anonymous on May 08th, 2008
i am not as comp. savvy as most of you here.....
i am still having this problem w/ the balloon, the "x", the comp. shutting down after 60 sec. countdown. i literally have been on the phone w/ windows xp help for 2 hours today alone. actually on the phone right now, using another comp. please help me. i have tried everything that has been posted.....
i think
Posted by anonymous on May 09th, 2008
Great. Thanks man! I often open the Windows Security Center window thinking of how to turn off that silly balloon but never come across that Resource pane. Wekekek.
Very helpful post. More power!
-goodbuoy
Posted by anonymous on May 12th, 2008
Thanks for this share dude,
Was really useful.
Regards,
NIMISH
id:nimish00678@gmail.com
Posted by anonymous on May 16th, 2008
Woo hoo! Finally got rid of this annoyance. THANKS FrosT!
Posted by anonymous on May 17th, 2008
Worked for me also. Don't know why it pops up because everything is enabled and working. Anyway what idiot in their right mind would create a popup that displays so quick you cannot even read it to see what is causing it. I disabled eveything else in MSconfig but still didn't stop it. Only when I got the same thing on a very slow computer did the popup stay long enough to be read. Very bad programming.
Posted by anonymous on May 29th, 2008
Thanks for your help!
Cheers
Posted by anonymous on May 31st, 2008
Thank You such ma simple solution. I am totally stunned. Thanks Boet
Posted by anonymous on May 31st, 2008
Thank You such much man it was a brilliantly simple solution. I am totally stunned. I think i'm gonna miss that damned red ballon like a terrible hangover. Thanks Boet.
Trevor Kalidheen, Brakpan, South Africa
Posted by anonymous on June 02nd, 2008
Thanks 
I were too lazy to do it on my own.
Posted by anonymous on June 04th, 2008
oh wow thanks so much dude. its really helpful.. thanks a lot
Posted by anonymous on June 05th, 2008
Thanks
Posted by anonymous on June 12th, 2008
sugoi!
Posted by anonymous on June 15th, 2008
Many Thanks 2 u
Posted by anonymous on June 18th, 2008
Cool! and the setting was there! in the Securty Center, but it was written with so small letters I never looked at it
thx!
Posted by anonymous on June 24th, 2008
Special Thank to you
Iran
Posted by anonymous on June 26th, 2008
I did it!, but when I press "CHANGE THE WAY ..BLAH BLAH" a web site opens! :S
" BUY THE ANTIVIRUS 2009 AND SHIT"
i dunno what to do now
please HELP ME :'(
gaby.of.a.down@hotmail.com
thanks!!!!
Posted by anonymous on July 03rd, 2008
Nope. Didn't work. ny other ideas?
A
Posted by anonymous on July 06th, 2008
cool!!! i finally got rid of the annoying balloon. Thanks a lot
Posted by anonymous on July 06th, 2008
Thank so much
Posted by anonymous on July 12th, 2008
Awesome, i wanted this stupid warning dead for months, stupid windows.
Cheers for sharing.
Posted by anonymous on July 13th, 2008
Thanks. Helps me get rid of it too.
Posted by anonymous on July 17th, 2008
thank you very much.
Posted by anonymous on July 24th, 2008
First post was September 2006? And still this info is the most useful on the entire web.
Thanks so very, very much!
Posted by anonymous on July 27th, 2008
you done a great service for mankind. many thanks!
Posted by anonymous on August 10th, 2008
Aaaah... that's so much better... thank you...
Posted by anonymous on August 16th, 2008
I hate the fact that you have to manually do this. I have a small reg script that disables ballon tips, but of course the special 'security' bullshit is exempt from that. Anyone know a way to script turning these options off?
Posted by anonymous on August 20th, 2008
Still a useful tip!
Posted by anonymous on August 27th, 2008
Stop and disable "security center" service
Posted by anonymous on August 27th, 2008
Thank you so much man! OMG I LOVE YOU ROFL!!! I am pretty fond of computers, and I didn't know it would be that easy to get rid of the annoying thing lol! w00t ty again 
Posted by anonymous on August 31st, 2008
I say thanks a million for your postings and wonderfull group.
Thnaks
Posted by anonymous on September 03rd, 2008
That dialog box had me ready to destroy my computer...
Posted by anonymous on September 11th, 2008
Fantastic
regards
Joseph www.phuket-webdevelopment.com
Posted by anonymous on September 20th, 2008
thanxx Bro......
ur genius buddy
Posted by anonymous on October 05th, 2008
Thank You, that help me soo much!
Posted by anonymous on October 18th, 2008
didn't work ...HHHHEELLP!
Posted by anonymous on October 22nd, 2008
By far, this is one of the best tips. Thank you
Posted by anonymous on November 06th, 2008
Thanks 
Posted by anonymous on November 09th, 2008
actually u just have to go to the file u want to open, go to the file properties.after opening properties, there is this icon which says unblock..u click that and the file can be opened
Posted by anonymous on November 11th, 2008
The instructions did not help me because there is no Resources pane in the latest version of this horrible nuissance. Can anyone please help me further, directly to my e-mail milana81@eunet.rs or I might go crazy.
Posted by anonymous on November 23rd, 2008
perfect solution you have guided, thnaks.
Posted by anonymous on December 08th, 2008
Thanks for that
WORK 100% FINE,, thanks!
Posted by anonymous on December 17th, 2008
Man, i cant clik the option
Posted by anonymous on January 17th, 2009
It's my home computer... Tried to fix, but I have a grey box and cannot change... For those posts that say I do not have admin privliges, this is my computer not a work computer... For those who say that means that I have nothing that needs to be updated, I still get update messages... this is annoying... Anyone know which reg hack may work? Thanks
Posted by anonymous on January 17th, 2009
thanks works a charm
Posted by anonymous on January 31st, 2009
Thank you so much. This is so great.
Posted by anonymous on February 02nd, 2009
Thanks for the above, saved me trying to figure it out.
Canada Bob.
Posted by anonymous on February 04th, 2009
Thank you so much. Have ditched all but one office PC in favour of Macs but had to keep this useless heap to run our accounting software. At least its a bit less annoying to use now.
Posted by anonymous on March 04th, 2009
I find things like that annoying, but I'm a computer person (like most who would post here). But we are less than 0.5% of computer users, the other 99.5% need to be told that stuff.
Posted by anonymous on March 08th, 2009
Go to Help and Support in Windows. Search Security Center. It tells you how to turn off security alert in the help and support section.
Posted by anonymous on March 16th, 2009
thanks a lot... good post...
Posted by anonymous on March 17th, 2009
dude, that thing has been annoying me for years. my life will be so much better now. you are a truly supreme being.
Posted by anonymous on March 18th, 2009
thx it worked in japanase version its the last choice on the left hand "help" side bar and the 3rd choice afterwards...
Posted by anonymous on March 30th, 2009
Thank you very much for the info. That damn thing is really annoying.
Posted by anonymous on April 10th, 2009
thanks so much saved me from a headach
Posted by anonymous on April 15th, 2009
Thanks a lot for the info, even though it wasn't exactly that path I followed in windows Vista Black edition,- this note gave me the info to go directly to the Security Center and solve it from there...simple, when you first get the idea,- so thanks a lot.
Posted by anonymous on April 23rd, 2009
thank you
Posted by anonymous on April 28th, 2009
thanqz man....works fine
Posted by anonymous on May 01st, 2009
Thank you very much. Was eating my head. i must be really stupid to have not looked in there. hehe.
Posted by anonymous on May 15th, 2009
Many thanks. Finally it is gonE!
Posted by anonymous on May 19th, 2009
Thanks, really useful tip.
Posted by anonymous on May 20th, 2009
Thanks very much. An easy tip yet it took me ages to find my way here. Thanks again.
Posted by anonymous on June 04th, 2009
Waw, it's really work. Thank you very much. I've tried another advise by using program that make me have to re install my windows. This tips rocks!
Posted by anonymous on June 11th, 2009
thanks alot
Posted by anonymous on June 13th, 2009
And allow me to add my own thanks here. No one really needs extra irritation in their home life.
Cheers!
Scott
Posted by anonymous on June 14th, 2009
well, i do not have the security center in my system tools listing. I have already turned off everything in service awhile back and the freaking thing still give warning every time I start my PC. damn microsoft...not like its security does any good, damn bandaid company
Posted by anonymous on June 17th, 2009
I also didn't have the security center in my system tools, but I "encouraged" it to pop-up by stopping the Security Center service and was able to disable the balloon warning from there. Thank you very much for the info, that thing has been bugging me forever!
Posted by anonymous on June 27th, 2009
Cannoy image how easy. Thanks.
Posted by anonymous on July 07th, 2009
Anyone encountering the buy antivirus software you are infected with spyware, please download and install Malware Bytes which is also free.
Posted by anonymous on July 31st, 2009
Hah! Simply easy, but simpler to find instructions that fiddle with it for 15 minutes, thanks for the help man.
For those of you with questions about virus protection, get AVG, it's best for it's price seeing how it's free, virus free for 2 years now, and I download things all the time, if you're looking for heavier protection, just search around and avoid Mcaffee(Spelling) and Norton.
Posted by anonymous on August 16th, 2009
awsome thanks
Posted by anonymous on August 17th, 2009
Thanks a lot
Mithun
Posted by anonymous on August 17th, 2009
YEAH, this has annoyed me for years, Thumbs up, and 5 stars,but THANKS Frost hardly seems enough!!!
Posted by anonymous on August 28th, 2009
finally GONE!!! thank you thank you thank you.. more power to geeks!
joe from oz
Posted by anonymous on September 03rd, 2009
you are a man among men. cheers
Posted by anonymous on September 03rd, 2009
FALEMINDERIT
THANKS IN ALBANIAN
ALBAN DOKTORI-TIRANE-ALBANIA
Posted by anonymous on September 09th, 2009
Yay! it's gone.. Another reason I only run windows in a virtual machine.
--Mark
Posted by anonymous on September 09th, 2009
thank you.... you are brilliant
Posted by anonymous on December 07th, 2009
Hoho! Thanks a million!
Posted by anonymous on December 21st, 2009
Thanks buddy
Posted by frost on December 21st, 2009
No problem.
Posted by anonymous on January 19th, 2010
Finally disabled it.....4 years later.
Thank you.
Posted by anonymous on January 26th, 2010
Useful indeed 
Posted by anonymous on January 29th, 2010
wowwwww ur clever Frost thanks alot.....
Posted by anonymous on February 04th, 2010
Ok here's another question. How in the heck do i stop that balloon telling me that my USB Devise isn't installed. It happens to be for my Ethernet. Silly thing, I'm on-line now but that balloon and silly pop'ing sound wont stop. I've installed said Drivers re-booted yet it wont stopping telling me it isn't working. < Going Nutts'iod here..
Posted by anonymous on March 08th, 2010
See you in hell, balloon that sucks ! lol but thanks i was also getting ready for a registry hack. i tried ending it through processes but it duplicated ! lol
Posted by anonymous on March 13th, 2010
Thank you very much for the useful post
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