Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Windows Security Account Protection Notifications

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable account protection notifications from Windows Security for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

The Notifications page of Windows Security settings lets you configure what kind of notifications you want to receive.

The Account protection notifications below can notify you if there are issues with your Windows Hello or Dynamic Lock, such as bad lighting making it difficult for Hello to recognize you, or your mobile device not being found to activate Device Lock.

• Problems with Windows Hello
• Problems with Dynamic lock

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EXAMPLE: Windows Hello "Help Windows recognize you" notification







1 Open Windows Security.

2 Click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on the Manage notifications link under Notifications. (see screenshot below)


4 Perform one of the following actions you want: (see screenshots below)

• Turn off Get account protection notifications.
• Turn on (default) Get account protection notifications, and check (on - default) or uncheck (off) Problems with Windows Hello and/or Problems with Dynamic lock.

5 You can now close Windows Security if you like.





1 Do step 2 (on - all), step 3 (off - all), or step 4 (on/off specific) below for what you would like to do.

This is the default setting

(Contents of REG file for reference)





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(Contents of REG file for reference)

5 Save the REG file to your desktop.

6 Double click/tap on the downloaded REG file to merge it.

7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8 You can now delete the downloaded REG file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink