Disabling the Security Center in Windows XP

Every time we connect to the internet and if the security center in windows xp running or not disable it, windows xp security center will update automatically, and sometimes it can slow the performance of our internet.

Windows security Center is a component that works under Windows XP service pack 2 for providing information about the status of your antivirus software, firewall and Automatic update. Below is an image of a Windows Security Center.

Sometimes, it may become annoying as you receive frequent message in forms of pop-up balloon alerts telling you. Below are two ways that you can choose to stop this disable this feature.

Disable Alerts

Turn off Windows Security Center

Disable Alerts

Select Menu Start > Control Panel and double-click on the icon security Center.

In the Menu bar Resources, click on Change the way Security Center alerts me . Below image will appear on your screen.

Turn off all alerts by unchecking the cross box. Finally click on OK .

Turn off Windows Security Center

You may choose to turn off the windows security center if you are more than sure your personal firewall is effective.
To do this setting, click on menu Start and select Run .
Then type Services.msc and click on Ok .
Scroll down and double-click on Security Center to open it.

In the Startup type, select Disable and click on OK .

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