Re: WinXP SP2 Security Center still appears after I check the item

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From: LightSpecial (LightSpecial_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:29:05 -0700

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> Several others have reported this issue, only way to avoid this
> resetting is to disable the Security Center service.

I'm not fond of simply disabling the service... although while poking around
in there it was nice to see that many of the services I used to disable
manually were already disabled. Although I still had the wireless networking
active (I disabled) pointless as I'm hardwired to the network.

As an alternative I'm not shutting my PC down via "Hibernate" rather than a
full shutdown. Which has eliminated the annoying firewall reset. While it
does take gobs of HD space (roughly equivalent to amount of RAM, in my case
just of a gig) it doesn't bother me much as I've recently slapped dual 180gb
drives into it.

Still its a work around rather than a true solution. Hopefully MS will fix
these small annoyances sooner than later.

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