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I decided to disable the "real time protection feature" of MSE. Now I have this little annoying "feature", that MSE keeps me informed that I have disabled "real time protection":

the little red warning symbol down in the systemtray

How can I disable that warning? some registry hacks? I have seen 49336 (a valid option), but I only want MSE to be quiet about the 'threat of disabling real time protection'.

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Short of removing/hiding the tray icon, you can't disable that warning. It's also a good choice for a security software to be "in-your-face" about it, as real time protection is important to most users.

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well, one can discuss about the decision to 'offer disabling rtp' in the first place and THEN complaint constantly about it... – akira Oct 2 '09 at 6:15
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The ability to disable it is supposed to be just used temporarily (eg if you have trouble installing a program, sometimes your are sometimes asked to disable rtp to see if it is causing a conflict). – sgmoore Oct 5 '09 at 19:35
then m$ should provide a "disable for 5 minutes" button. that would be ok. but not this "yeah, you will disable it but we keep you bugged and bugged and bugged about this till you switch it backon" – akira Oct 5 '09 at 19:58
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I don't have MSE installed here, so I can't test this, but when you go to the "hide inactive icons" then click customize, do you get a different entry for mse for when real-time protection is disabled, than for when it is enable or other errors?

You might be able to hide just the one you want.

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well, the point is: i want to see the trayicon of all the processes which run. and i want (on reasonable events) be informed that something is wrong: i turned of mse rtp because i dont want it, so this warning is pointless. (for me :) – akira Oct 5 '09 at 19:58

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