How to turn off firewall monitoring in win XP Pro SP2?

I installed SP2 recently on my WINXP Pro PL. I've been using Sygate
Personal Firewall (of course not recognized by SP2 Security Center),
so I decided to turn off SP2 firewall, also I have unchecked firewall
notification in SP2 and choose not to monitor the firewall, yet after
every system restart I get the notification about the firewall beeing
turned off and firewall notification is checked back on as well as
firewall monitoring is back on. Can anyone help??

Greg

http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/seccenteralert.htm
Security Center alert on every startup - WinXP SP2


"Greg" <> wrote in message
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>I installed SP2 recently on my WINXP Pro PL. I've been using Sygate
> Personal Firewall (of course not recognized by SP2 Security Center),
> so I decided to turn off SP2 firewall, also I have unchecked firewall
> notification in SP2 and choose not to monitor the firewall, yet after
> every system restart I get the notification about the firewall beeing
> turned off and firewall notification is checked back on as well as
> firewall monitoring is back on. Can anyone help??
>
> Greg

You can also stop the security center notifications by turning off the
security center.

In the run box type services.msc, find the "Security Center" service and
disable it.

I did this and have no problems. Anti-virus and Firewall still work fine
without it.

Good luck,
SI

"Taurarian" wrote:

> http://www.winxptutor.com/sp2/seccenteralert.htm
> Security Center alert on every startup - WinXP SP2
>
>
> "Greg" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> >I installed SP2 recently on my WINXP Pro PL. I've been using Sygate
> > Personal Firewall (of course not recognized by SP2 Security Center),
> > so I decided to turn off SP2 firewall, also I have unchecked firewall
> > notification in SP2 and choose not to monitor the firewall, yet after
> > every system restart I get the notification about the firewall beeing
> > turned off and firewall notification is checked back on as well as
> > firewall monitoring is back on. Can anyone help??
> >
> > Greg
>
>

Finally a working solution. Thanks.
I modified registry as suggested before, but still was getting the
firewall notification.

"SI" <> wrote in message news:<E2F75636-03E2-430B-A2B3->...
> You can also stop the security center notifications by turning off the
> security center.
>
> In the run box type services.msc, find the "Security Center" service and
> disable it.
>
> I did this and have no problems. Anti-virus and Firewall still work fine
> without it.