Disable Action Center via registy key?

Hello everybody,

is it possible to disable the Action Center via registry key or change the settings?

I don't want so see the icon in the taskbar anymore but I will applie this to the default user.

Regards,

Thomas

Thanks Grimmjow,

but I'd like to have a registry key for that.

I need that for our automatic windows 7 installation.

I thin a better way than to hide would be disabling, if this is possible.

You could set "Security Center" to manual or disabled in services.msc. That way you could more easily reverse this, if you changed your mind in the future.

EDIT: Doing this will also disable Windows Updates, so you would have to manually check yourself periodically. I've become accustomed to the automatic service, because I have it set to only download and notify me of updates, without installing them until I decide.

Thanks guys, but I don't know this will deactivate Windows update too.

We have a WSUS server in our company which deploys the updates but if i understand correctly, these updates won't be installed anymore, right?

I've found a policy value "User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar -> Remove the Action Center icon"

See here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...8WS.10%29.aspx

Does anybody know the regestry key for that?

We only have a 2003 Domain currently and I could not set that via those policies in our AD, because 2003 don't knows this value.

Unbelivable If found the key.

This one disables the icon:

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
 "HideSCAHealth"=dword:00000001

This one enables the icon:

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
  "HideSCAHealth"=dword:00000001

Thanks all for your support