Windows 10: Disable Security and Maintenance Settings Messages through registry.

Hello, I am having trouble disabling the Security and Maintenance settings through the registry.The settings I'm referring to can be found at Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Security and Maintenance\Change Security and Maintenance settingsUnder Security messages:- Internet security settings; -Network firewall; -User Account control; -Virus protectionUnder Maintenance messages:- Windows Backup; -Automatic Maintenance; -Drive status; -Windows Troubleshooting; -File History; -Storage Spaces; -Work Folders.11 registry keys with binary values change back and forth depending on whether or not

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Unable to disable some security and maintenance settings

I'm unable to disable some security and maintenance settings (the windows update, microsoft account, spyware and unwanted software protection, windows activation, device software, startup apps and homegroup [I thought the latest Windows 10 versions didn't have it] ones since it won't let me click on them).

Even after doing a clean install I still can't disable some security and maintenance settings (the ones I mentioned earlier). I've been having this problem since Windows 7.

 

how to Disable "Security and Maintenance" notifications

You might see if turning off the messages you want in the Control Panel (icons view) -> Security and Maintenance - > Change Security and Maintenance settings may help.

However, I've noticed that system security notifications often ignore what you set and show you notifications anyway.

 

Automatic Maintenance Disable Bug

I have recently been plagued with my computer waking up in the middle of the night and have gone through every step imaginable to resolve the issue.

• I checked the LAN and WiFi cards for being able to wake the computer, and disabled them.
• Disabled all my USB devices from being able to wake the computer
• Checked all scheduled tasks Task Scheduler and found nothing at the time of the event for the last run time. I did this right after turning it on to make sure no other events really had time to run.
• I checked powercfg /lastwake, which said unknown, and /waketimers, which listed nothing there.
• Checked UpdateOrchestrator and turned off their abilities to wake the computer.
• I ran the powershell command, Get-ScheduledTask | where {$_.settings.waketorun} and found nothing enabled
• I unchecked run Automatic Maintenance at a scheduled time
• I checked group policy for anything related to waking/rebooting for Windows Updates, and found nothing related.

There were a few other steps I went through that I found online in different articles, but nothing had worked. The most interesting thing about all this was that Automatic Maintenance had run at the exact time that my computer had generated it's Wake Event
in event viewer, even when being disabled. I have added a registry key to disabled it manually, that I found online, and if it works, I will edit my post to let others know that it worked, and where the key was added and with what name and value.

I made this post more so for visibility and as a bug report t bring the attention of support that may get an engineer to look at the issue.

My build version is: 1709 (16299.192)

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