****This procedure only works in Windows 10 build 1607 and above!****

• Windows 10 Notification Settings Registry
• Windows 10 Notification Settings Greyed Out
• Windows 10 Notification Settings Not Saving

How to turn off notifications in Windows 10 Turn off notifications. Step 1: Open the Windows Settings menu by pressing. Temporarily mute notifications. If you want to hide notifications without turning them off entirely. Bonus tip: How to dismiss notifications. Notifications are a phenomenal. To begin open up the Settings app – a shortcut to this is located on the Start Menu. From the main page of the Settings app click/tap on System. From the System page click/tap on Notifications & actions. From here there are several controls relating to notifications on Windows 10. Master toggle to turn off all app related notifications.

Hello there fellow Windows 10 users!

A question that I get asked frequently by customers who are deploying Windows 10 these days is whether or not it’s possible to disable specific notifications within the Action Center. The reasons for wanting to do this are many, but the most common reason is because a customer has decided to utilize a third-party security suite on their system, and they have turned off the Security Center service to keep the OS from repeatedly warning them that the Fire Wall profiles have been turned off, the Windows Defender service has been turned off, etc. Unfortunately, the OS really wants you to keep the Security Center service turned on (for good reason!), so it will periodically remind you that the service has been stopped, and recommend that you turn it back on within the Action Center. My recommendation has always been to ensure that you are using a security product that uses our COM API’s to play nice with Security Center, but some super secure organizations still turn it off and rely on other security software that’s installed on the Operating System.

In Windows 10 there is no UI settings to configure notification of Windows update, please set following GPO and see if it can meet your satisfaction. In Windows 10 there is no UI settings to configure notification of Windows update, please set following GPO and see if it can meet your satisfaction.

So there is our dilemma! Prior to the release of Windows build 1607 (a.k.a. the Anniversary build), it was not possible to selectively disable specific notifications from popping up within the Action Center. While Windows 7 used to have some notification registry keys for the Security Center that you could tinker with to turn off the notifications, those settings did not carry through to Windows 8/8.1/10. The 1511 and earlier builds of Windows 10 would allow you to disable SOME notifications from firing and ending up in the Action Center, but not all. In builds of Windows 10 prior to 1607, if you wanted to disable the Security Center (and may other) warnings from appearing within the Action Center, you’re only option was to turn on a local or group policy setting that essentially turns off ALL notifications that may appear within the Action Center. As you may have guessed, this approach really stunk because it prohibited you from receiving other useful notifications from applications that you may have wanted to receive notifications from… like the built-in email application, and notifications from Outlook!

Luckily, notification behavior appears to have changed significantly starting with Windows 10 build 1607. I say “appears” because I stumbled across the new behavior while performing process traces for a completely unrelated issue that I was troubleshooting! I have yet to find any documentation that refers to these changes, but the behavior has definitely changed in the favor of customers who wish to have the ability to selectively disable specific notifications across the board for all users.

So how does this new behavior help us selectively disable notifications? I’m glad you asked! Windows 10 build 1607 and above appears to now store the notification configuration data for each user within the following registry key: HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettings. When a notification is disabled, an Enabled DWORD registry value is created within a corresponding child key, with a value set to 0. If you’ve ever taken a look at the notifications settings within Windows 10, you’ve undoubtedly seen that there are numerous built-in services and applications that we can disable notifications on, and each one of those services and applications has it’s own string that the OS recognizes.

Now I bet you’re thinking that it would sure be nice of me to list all of these keys. Don’t worry, I will below. But I can also offer you something that’s potentially better, depending on how you’d like to deploy these settings. I recently worked on a Windows 10 deployment project with a customer who wished to turn off most of the default built-in notifications. They also didn’t want to do it via preferences (long story). So what I ended up doing is creating a custom ADMX template for them that allowed their administrators to turn on and off the notifications for all users at will. A download link for the template files can be found at the bottom of this article. When the template is imported into either the local or Central policy store, you end up with an additional User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows Components GPO category that looks like this:

****This part is important!****

Those of you with a keen eye may have noticed that the policy settings look a bit different from other policy settings that you can define within gpedit or GPMC. There’s a reason for this, and it’s a reason that you need to bear in mind for any future changes that you make! The policy settings that my ADMX file lets you define are NOT managed policy settings, as the registry values that the policy creates are not located in any of the managed SOFTWAREPolicies registry keys. This means that the registry values that the ADMX file creates are considered to be preferences (different from GPP slightly), which makes sense considering that these values are usually set on a per-user basis. As of the time of the writing of this article, the notification subsystem in Windows 10 does not appear to support managed registry values, as it completely ignores any registry values that we add to HKCUSOFTWAREPolicies key. So what does this mean if you chose to use the ADMX file to disable the notifications? It means that any notification that you chose to disable will STAY disabled, even if the Group Policy Object that you’ve created is unlinked from the system that it’s applying too. If you wish to re-enable a particular notification, you’ll have to do one of two things:

• If the GPO is still applying to your systems, you can easily re-enable the notification by simply modifying the above GPO settings and selecting the ‘Disabled’ option. This option changes the Enabled 0 value to a 1, which causes the OS to ignore the setting and enable the notification.

• If you have unlinked the policy from a system and wish to enable the notification, you’ll either have to manually remove the associated registry key, or simply go into the Notifications section of the Settings app and turn the notification back on.

For those of you who don’t mind creating a Group Policy Preference GPO, you could also disable the notifications by simply adding any of the below registry keys and values to your policy, and then linking the policy to the users that you wish to disable the notifications on. Since the registry keys and values that we are putting in place are considered to be preferences so far as the OS is concerned, it only makes sense to deploy the registry keys and values using GPP! If you don’t need the visual cues that are provided by the ADMX file, then this method is for you.

Here are the keys and the values that will allow you to disable notifications from most of the built-in apps and services in Windows 10:

Disable Security and Maintenance Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.SecurityAndMaintenanceEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable OneDrive Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsMicrosoft.SkyDrive.DesktopEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Photos Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsMicrosoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!AppEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Store Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsMicrosoft.WindowsStore_8wekyb3d8bbwe!AppEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Suggested Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.SuggestedEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Calendar Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsmicrosoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe!microsoft.windowslive.calendarEnabled=0 (DWORD)

Disable Cortana Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsMicrosoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUIEnabled=0 (DWORD)

Disable Mail Notifications:

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsmicrosoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe!microsoft.windowslive.mailEnabled=0 (DWORD)

Disable Edge Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdgeEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Audio Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.AudioTroubleshooterEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Windows 10 Notification Settings Registry

Disable Autoplay Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.AutoPlayEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Battery Saver Notifications

Windows 10 Notification Settings Greyed Out

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.BackgroundAccessEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Bitlocker Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.BdeUnlockEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable News Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsMicrosoft.BingNews_8wekyb3d8bbwe!AppexNewsEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Settings Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingswindows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy!microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanelEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Tablet Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.System.ContinuumEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable VPN Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.RasToastNotifierEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Windows Hello Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.HelloFaceEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

Disable Wireless Notifications

HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNotificationsSettingsWindows.SystemToast.WiFiNetworkManagerEnabled = 0 (DWORD)

That about sums it up people! Now go out and disable notifications to you or your customer’s hearts content! Until next time!

We all use our PC for work, and getting distracted for any reason does break the concentration. Just like your Phone, Windows 10 Apps & System does send out notifications. They are there for a reason, but if they are too many, its time to tame those distractions, and make sure you control them.

What is the Notifications and Action Center

If you are wondering where this came from, then this is the central location. which technically is positioned on the extreme right, for all notifications on Windows 10.

You can always open your action center, and check which notifications need your attention, or dismiss the ones not required. These notifications also offer quick actions. More on the Notifications and Action Center here

How to Customize the Notification area on the Taskbar

Many don’t know that messages that show up from time to time on the bottom-right of the Taskbar are also part of notifications. Often called as System Tray, it houses apps and OS components. If you have too many in that area, it becomes annoying. Read our detailed post on Start Menu & Taskbar customization here.

Back to Action Center

The image below shows how a typical action center looks like. You have notifications stacked on top of each other, some messages have actions (Email notifications lets you archive), and they are all sorted by apps. In the end, you have quick toggle/ action buttons which let you change state or sometimes open an app like settings.

If you choose to expand, you can see more Quick Action buttons. By default, there are 7 to 8 action buttons available. You get to see 4, and rest show up when you expand – but you can if you wish to change the order or remove/add Quick Action buttons.

Pro Tip: If you wish to completely disable the Action Center in Windows 10, it is possible to do so.

Control & reduce Notifications in Windows 10

Now that you are done with the basics, let’s get to know how to lower down a number of notifications. There are two ways of doing this. First is from the global settings, and second from the action center. Since we are already here, let’s have a look at the first one. Under Settings > System > Notifications and actions, you have a list of toggles.

Managing Global Notification Settings:

• Lock Screen Options:
  • Show Hide notification on the lock screen.
  • Show / Hide reminders and incoming VoIP call on the lock screen.
• Apps:
  • Turn on or off notifications from Apps, and other senders.
  • In the end, you have a list of Senders or Apps which include apps like Fitbit, Cortana, etc. You can choose to turn them off individually.

You can also choose to disable Windows Welcome Experience, Tips and Tricks notifications, and hide notifications when duplicating screen. This is useful if you are connecting to the projector for a demo.

Making choices from the Action Center

In my experience, instead of turning them from the above-mentioned area, it is better to do it as you get it. The notifications are all stacked in the action center, and if you right-click on any of them, you get options right away. I am using “Mail” app as an example here.

1. Turn off notifications from Mail.
2. Make Mail high priority.
3. Go to Notification Settings.

When you choose to increase priority, notifications from that app will always be on top. The third option takes you to Apps settings where you can choose more granular control. We will talk about it a bit.

This method works based on your experience, and usage. So if there is an app which is sending out notification for the first time, doesn’t miss your attention.

Control where Notifications Show & How to hide them

If you wish notifications from few apps should not be visible as a pop-up or on the lock screen, it is possible to control it. At times, you need your privacy, and Windows 10 offers you right choices.

Like I said above, The third option takes you to Apps settings where you can choose more granular control. The options are-

1. You can choose to turn off notifications from that app completely, which becomes useful for apps you occasionally use.
2. Banners from App are sometimes very distracting, you can Hide Notification banners completely.
3. Keep Notifications private on the lock screen.
4. Show or hide notification in Action center.
5. Play a sound and set the priority.

Using these, you can completely hide notifications from apps if you wish to. To change, you need to go back to Notifications & Actions > select the app you disabled, and then change it.

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Pro Tip: You can turn off Notification sounds or you can take granular control of each app and the select sound of your choice.

How to disable notifications temporarily

If you are working on something important, and do not want to get disturbed for a couple of hours, you can use Quiet Hours. Right click on right most corner of the taskbar, and you will see options for:

• Turn on quiet hours.
• Don’t Show app icons.
• Don’t show a number of new notifications.

Quiet Hours can be configured very easily, and the above option lets you turn it on off when you wish.

Windows 10 Notification Settings Not Saving

How do you manage notifications on Windows 10? Do you use Quite hours or control it on a per-app basis. Do let us know in the comments.

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