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Howto: Disable Windows Security Center Balloon Warning

Sep 28th, 2006 - Subscribe
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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.

Related Article:
Remove Automatic Restart After Windows Updates

Comments: 80

Comments:

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. :/

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

anonymous
on October 09th, 2006

Oh.. Oh my.. Im an idiot.

anonymous
on October 17th, 2006

Thanky you so much. that god damn balloon is banished forever

david
on October 17th, 2006

Yay! Another statisfied user! Thanks for the information.

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.

anonymous
on November 16th, 2006

Thanks for pinting out where those little tick boxes were. I was getting ready for a REG hack :-)

anonymous
on January 09th, 2007

Thankyou very much. The baloon is now DEAD

anonymous
on January 21st, 2007

Thanks a lot. U saved my days

anonymous
on January 29th, 2007

yes, google and teh internets solve my problems yet again...

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

frost
on January 29th, 2007

You have spyware buddy, sucks for you.

--FrosT

anonymous
on February 03rd, 2007

Dude... Thanks a lot!!! The baloon is gone!!!

anonymous
on February 06th, 2007

guy with red circle with white x download hijackthis from download dot com and avg anti spyware from free dot grisoft dot com

anonymous
on February 17th, 2007

BRILLIANT SAVED ME SMASHING MY FOOKIN PC UP

anonymous
on February 24th, 2007

thanks a lota man !

anonymous
on February 27th, 2007

nice 1

anonymous
on March 08th, 2007

Thanks for the post!!!

anonymous
on March 12th, 2007

Thanks Very Much!!!!
I have been trying to kill this forever, nothing but another Microsuck annoyance feature.

anonymous
on March 23rd, 2007

im not sure if it works, but I hope so and thank you !!!

anonymous
on April 02nd, 2007

Good tiP ns it worked just fine. Thanks!

anonymous
on April 19th, 2007

WORK 100% FINE,, thanks!

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

anonymous
on May 05th, 2007

finally this annoying thing is gone

anonymous
on May 06th, 2007

Thank you man! I KILLED THA F***ING BALOOON! Peace!

anonymous
on June 13th, 2007

haha, wonderful. this one was so easy I completely overlooked it. Thanks a bunch!

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.

anonymous
on July 04th, 2007

gud work buddy!!

anonymous
on July 07th, 2007

hats off to u

anonymous
on July 17th, 2007

Thanks a lot. The balloon was really annoying. Thanks to your tip its gone.

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 !

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

anonymous
on September 26th, 2007

Thanks, finally getting rid of that annoying message balloon every time i start up my pc....

======= Ray

anonymous
on October 18th, 2007

Thanks a bunch. Appreciate the information. Worked like a charm.

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

anonymous
on October 30th, 2007

what happens if you dont have security center?? methid45@excite.com

anonymous
on November 04th, 2007

Thanks Sir for the much needed help

anonymous
on November 06th, 2007

Hi!
Thank you very much for your tip! That's very helpful.

anonymous
on November 07th, 2007

This still wont kill waring when you open an uncertified exe over a network ;(

anonymous
on November 21st, 2007

right! stupid me

anonymous
on December 08th, 2007

finaly s smart person who knows their shi-t
thanks

anonymous
on December 16th, 2007

thank you is the least i could say

anonymous
on December 22nd, 2007

Thanks.

anonymous
on December 22nd, 2007

Thanks a lot mate, The fucking ballon finally disappeaered!

anonymous
on December 25th, 2007

COOL!!!

anonymous
on December 31st, 2007

Thanks, man!

anonymous
on December 31st, 2007

oh! god, finally killed the damned balon

anonymous
on January 06th, 2008

tks

anonymous
on January 25th, 2008

thanks dude!!!

anonymous
on January 29th, 2008

Thanks Mate .... stopped me from searching

anonymous
on February 19th, 2008

Thanks telling me. I am grateful.

anonymous
on March 01st, 2008

HAHAHAHA BALLOON YOUR LIFE IS FORFEIT!

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 -

anonymous
on March 08th, 2008

U r the man...Thanks

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.

anonymous
on April 01st, 2008

Thank you so much. The balloon just ticks me off.

anonymous
on April 08th, 2008

thanxx alot man that was brilliant from u and ridiculous from windows..

anonymous
on April 16th, 2008

Oh yessss! finally those annoying feature is banished, hahahahaha... THANK YOU bro!!!

anonymous
on April 18th, 2008

snaps to you buddy!! lemme buy you a drink!

i was so close... yet so far... (*o*)

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!!!

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 : )

anonymous
on April 26th, 2008

Thanks

anonymous
on May 08th, 2008

Thanks much

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

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

anonymous
on May 12th, 2008

Thanks for this share dude,
Was really useful.
Regards,
NIMISH

id:nimish00678@gmail.com

anonymous
on May 16th, 2008

Woo hoo! Finally got rid of this annoyance. THANKS FrosT!

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.

anonymous
on May 29th, 2008

Thanks for your help!
Cheers

anonymous
on May 31st, 2008

Thank You such ma simple solution. I am totally stunned. Thanks Boet

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

anonymous
on June 02nd, 2008

Thanks

I were too lazy to do it on my own.

anonymous
on June 04th, 2008

oh wow thanks so much dude. its really helpful.. thanks a lot

anonymous
on June 05th, 2008

Thanks

anonymous
on June 12th, 2008

sugoi!

anonymous
on June 15th, 2008

Many Thanks 2 u

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!

anonymous
on June 24th, 2008

Special Thank to you
Iran

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!!!!

anonymous
on July 03rd, 2008

Nope. Didn't work. ny other ideas?

A