Action Center is a new Windows 7 feature that displays system notifications to the user from its icon in the Windows 7 taskbar. The service will monitor certain Windows applications and functions and display problem reports to the user. The majority of problems that can be discovered are security or maintenance related, for example that the Windows Firewall is disabled or that no antivirus program has been found on the computer system.
While these information might be important for new and inexperienced users they might annoy experienced users more than they are helpful. Who would want to read day in day out that the Windows 7 Firewall is disabled on the computer system?
It is thankfully possible to customize the Windows 7 Action Center notifications. The Action Center configuration can be found in the Windows Control Panel or by typing in [action center] into the start menu form.
Experienced users can disable all Action Center notifications so that they will not show up in the taskbar anymore. Another option to completely disable Action Center in Windows 7 is to access the System Icons module in the Control Panel to change the Action Center entry from on to off.
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