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WheatonCollege
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"Turn on Windows Security Center Service" warning in Windows 10

Hi all,

We keep getting this message in the bottom right hand corner of the screen in a Windows 10 virtual desktop pool

"Turn on Windows Security Center Service"

Anyone know of a way to suppress it?

Thanks

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jmatz135
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I believe what you are referring to is the security center notifications.  This registry key should disable it.  We use UEM to push this down, but you could just use group policy.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings\Windows.SystemToast.SecurityAndMaintenance]

"Enabled"=dword:0

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WheatonCollege
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Hi, thanks for the suggestion. We tried a group policy that added that registry entry entry and the group policy did add the registry entry but we then noticed that our Windows 10 Start button no longer worked. We had run into this before where trying to enable group policies that deal with the Start menu and Taskbar break the Windows start button. We are running Horizon 7.4 and supposedly upgrading the VMware agent to 7.5 fixes these issues so we are going to test that.

Fingers crossed!

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jmatz135
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I definitely use that registry key and it doesn't break our start menu.  It really shouldn't have anything to do with the start menu as it is a notification area toast setting.  For your information this is our start menu UEM setting (not sure what you are using for profile management)

#Start Menu Settings

[IncludeRegistryTrees]

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore

[IncludeIndividualRegistryValues]

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SlowContextMenuEntries

[IncludeFolderTrees]

<LocalAppData>\Microsoft\Windows\Caches

<LocalAppData>\Microsoft\Windows\CloudStore

<LocalAppData>\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

<LocalAppData>\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications

<AppData>\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

[IncludeFiles]

<LocalAppData>\IconCache.db

We are using Windows 10 version 1703

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beutlern
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we had quite some trouble with the whole security center.

since we are using a 3rd party system for AV and disabled firewall profiles, we ended up disabling security center and defender all at once.

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WheatonCollege
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Hi jmatz135,

We are actually using Persona Management (not UEM) so that might account for the differences. I just tried removing the 7.4 View Agent and installing the 7.5 Agent and it fixes the Start menu issue (it not popping up) but it broke Persona Management 😞

Thanks for the suggestion though, much appreciated.

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WheatonCollege
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Hi beutlern,

We are running a different version of Windows 10 (from the iso SW_DVD5_WIN10_ENT_LTSB_2016_64BIT_English_MLF_X21-07421.ISO) but the Group Policy settings you suggest look exactly like what I might need. I'll test them out and report back.

Thanks!

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WheatonCollege
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WheatonCollege
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And it gets more interesting.... I logged out of the clone and log into a new desktop and the Start button does work but now the "Turn on Windows Security Center Service" error popped up.

I can't win

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beutlern
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have in mind that new clones might not have the gpo applied yet.

i think i've read the start button dilemma somewhere but i cant recall it.

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