[1703, cu] Security Centre service cannot be disabled

[Sheridan]

Stick this one in the bug pile - since the latest crappy update the Windows Security Centre keeps appearing in the toolbar. So I disabled the Windows Security Center Service in the group policy. 1703 ignores this and locks the service start as automatic, and you can't even change it as an administrator.

 

I'm starting to wonder whether MS are actively removing group policy as a tool these days.

Edited July 27, 2017 by ZeroHour

[Chuckster]

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SecurityHealthService

 

Create a DWORD called Start and enter the value as 4.

 

Reboot your machine and from thereon it will stop appearing.

[Sheridan]

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SecurityHealthService

 

Create a DWORD called Start and enter the value as 4.

 

Reboot your machine and from thereon it will stop appearing.

 

Cheers, that sort of works but I've disabled the very same service using group policy and it's ignored. The service still runs. Makes me wonder what else is being ignored in the latest release.

 

The registry setting works in the sense that the icon is still there when they login, but it disappears when your hover the mouse over it. Totally half baked results as usual.