[bkrodgers]

It might be possible to write a little utility to record your settings and periodically check in the background and reset them to what you want if they've changed. Maybe something as simple as MortScript could be used. I haven't had time to look into doing anything with it myself. For now, I just set everything to what I want and immediately used a registry editor to export the entire HKCU/ControlPanel/Notifications tree. Then, any time I notice it's changed, I just click on my Notifications.reg file and it sets things back the way I want.

Not ideal, but better than having to go manually reset everything that gets switched.