disabling the security status window from appearing on logon

We are installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 and have written a small
script to deal with how XP will behave after the XPSP2 has installed.

Everything is working fine appart from the fact every time a (new or
old) user logs on for the first time they receive a Windows Security
Status message. We would like to remove this.

We have unticked the boxes in 'Change the way Security Center alerts
me', ie the 3 tick boxes for AV, AU & Firewall and we do not receive
messages saying you do not have your Firewall switched on, etc however
the Windows Security Status Window appears only once when a user, be it
new or old, logs on.

We have set group policies to control the firewall and to turn off
automatic updates. We have 400 computer in a Novell environment so we
do not use Active Directory.

I have read disabling the wscsvc service would work but then this seems
to be a big change just to remove this one security status window.

Please any suggestions would be very helpful.

I don't think that it will be a major change if you turn off the Security
Centre service. Security Centre just check the Status Of the "Automatic
Updates", "Firewall" and "Anti-Virus" and if any of them is turn off or not
updated (like Anti Virus) then it just start display the message "Your
computer might be at risk". Nothing else.

According to me, there is nothing worry about as I always turn it off
because if everything is perfect then it still start displaying the message
because Virus defination of the Anti-Virus software is not update.

Hope this help, let us know!

"oli" wrote:

> We are installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 and have written a small
> script to deal with how XP will behave after the XPSP2 has installed.
>
> Everything is working fine appart from the fact every time a (new or
> old) user logs on for the first time they receive a Windows Security
> Status message. We would like to remove this.
>
> We have unticked the boxes in 'Change the way Security Center alerts
> me', ie the 3 tick boxes for AV, AU & Firewall and we do not receive
> messages saying you do not have your Firewall switched on, etc however
> the Windows Security Status Window appears only once when a user, be it
> new or old, logs on.
>
> We have set group policies to control the firewall and to turn off
> automatic updates. We have 400 computer in a Novell environment so we
> do not use Active Directory.
>
> I have read disabling the wscsvc service would work but then this seems
> to be a big change just to remove this one security status window.
>
> Please any suggestions would be very helpful.
>
>