Policy

Remove the Security and Maintenance icon

Microsoft Windows

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Remove the Security and Maintenance icon
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Start Menu and Taskbar
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows you to remove Security and Maintenance from the system control area. If you enable this policy setting, the Security and Maintenance icon is not displayed in the system notification area. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Security and Maintenance icon is displayed in the system notification area.

Internal name
HideSCAHealth
Policy ID
e5f509923332
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
HideSCAHealth
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
HideSCAHealth
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.