Disable Windows 7 Action Center | Quisitive
Disable Windows 7 Action Center
June 14, 2011
Quisitive
Set a registry key to disable it.

If for some reason you don’t want to use Group Policy to disable the Windows 7 Action Center, then there is a registry key you can set to disable it.

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HIDESCAHEALTH=DWORD:00000001

Once the registry key is set to a value of “1”, certain items will be greyed out in the Action Center configuration, and you will no longer see the Action Center icon in the system tray.

There is a simple Group Policy setting for this as well, this is generally my preference, but I had a client who wanted to disable it in the image regardless.

User Configuration – Policies – Admin Templates – Start Menu and TaskBar – Remove the Action Center Icon