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James Edmonds
Asked: 2017-10-28 06:46:14 +0800 CST

Windows 10 - Disable warning notification about disabled firewall via GPO

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Is there a way to disable the warning that is displayed in the notifications area, telling you that the Windows firewall is disabled?

Edit: We would specifically like to achieve this via group policy, not a manual process.

We disable the Domain firewall profile via GPO, which means Windows 10 machines constantly put warning notifications in the notification area about this. This generates user calls asking what the warning is about. We know it is disabled, so want to suppress the warning.

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4 Answers

    1. Click the Start button, type Security and Maintenance. (This should take you to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Security and Maintenance in the Control Panel.) You can also go directly to the control panel and get there that way.

    2. Choose Change Security and Maintenance settings.

    3. Uncheck Network firewall.

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  2. Best Answer

    It's not possible to disable the firewall notifications alone, but since Windows 10 build 1607 it has been possible to disable all Security and Maintenance Notifications using

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings\Windows.SystemToast.SecurityAndMaintenance\Enabled = 0 (DWORD)

    UPDATE: According to Ladislav Louka, the required value has changed to 1 since build 1809.

    Either add this registry key directly via Group Policy or create a custom ADMX template for it. See Disabling Windows 10 Notifications via Group Policy by Jeffrey Harness.

    I think any of these notifications equally doesn't need attention of a single user, but these settings must be monitored & maintained by the administrators, instead. The scope of this modification seems ok.

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  3. Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Defender Security Center -> Notifications -> Hide all notifications

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  4. I have spent 3 days testing this on 2 machines. When the following is in place the notifications do not pop up for the the firewall. When I remove them they comeback. I also tested inserting this into the default user hive so that all new users logging in will get the the registry change.

    This is for Windows 10 1809.

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications]
"NoToastApplicationNotification"=dword:00000001
"NoToastApplicationNotificationOnLockScreen"=dword:00000001
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