Close "Open Action Center" dialog popup

Question

Below is a dialog box that popped up while working. How do I close it? I clicked on Open Action Center, but this one didn't go away. Other than:

turning on Security Center service
setting up a backup
rebooting

is there a real way to close this?

(I'm looking for how to close it right now, not prevent it from coming up.)

alt t3xt

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 10 '12 at 00:42

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Try these steps:

open Task Manager
end the explorer.exe process
click anywhere in this popup
open Task Manager again
go to File → New Task (Run...)
enter explorer.exe and hit Enter

edited Nov 10 '12 at 00:42

Indrek

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answered Nov 09 '12 at 20:23

ashirviskas

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 31 '12 at 06:25

You can disable specific alerts from appearing in the popup, which effectively stops the popup from appearing at all if there are no alerts to display.

Go into Control Panel, into the Action Center and click the link on the left to Change Action Center settings. Untick the Windows Backup option.

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If it does not immediately disappear after applying the settings, try killing the explorer.exe process from Task Manager and start the explorer.exe process again (in the Windows Task Manager, select File -> New Task (Run) and type in explorer.exe).

Close "Open Action Center" dialog popup

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