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Wrace
Explorer
Dec 27, 2017

Windows 10, stop notifications

Fairly recent windows 10 user. Home version, creators update.

The notifications that shoot in from the lower right corner on the screen, and have audio sound, are driving me crazy.

How can I turn these off?

Examples:
Every time a new song plays off my play list there is a ding/dong and a window pops up in the lower right corner notifying me of the new songs name and artist.

Every time I take a picture with my phone there is a ding/dong and a window pops up in the lower right corner notifying me that there is an upload of said image.

There are a couple other notification messages as well.

The only thing I want my computer to notify me of is appointments off my calendar in outlook 2016. Outlook does this via a pop up window, which works fine.

How can I turn off these windows notifications?

Thanks

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  • Wrace's avatar
    Wrace
    Explorer
    Dec 28, 2017
    DiskDoctr wrote:
    If you hit the windows key (usually near bottom left of keyboard), the taskbar should show up, allowing you to right-click on it and select options.

    It's possible you shrunk it down in height and cannot see it. Try moving mouse towards bottom of screen and if it turns into double headed arrow, click and hold to drag it upwards about an inch. That should increase the size and let you work with it.

    What menu across the top? You didn't move the taskbar up top?

    Thanks for the help.

    Used the windows key to get into set up - notification menu.
    Turned everything back on that I had turned off.

    The menu bar (top) has reappeared but the task bar (bottom) is still not showing.

    The interesting thing is when hit the windows button the task bar shows up and stays up while I am in the settings menus. The switch for locking the task bar is on.

    When I close the settings menu the task bar disappears again.

    Can't get double arrows to show in task bar area.
  • TBammer's avatar
    TBammer
    Explorer
    Dec 28, 2017
    I'm so done with Windows. Loaded Linux Mint onto a partition and it works fine without all the Windows bloat and nonsense
  • DiskDoctr's avatar
    DiskDoctr
    Explorer
    Dec 28, 2017
    If you hit the windows key (usually near bottom left of keyboard), the taskbar should show up, allowing you to right-click on it and select options.

    It's possible you shrunk it down in height and cannot see it. Try moving mouse towards bottom of screen and if it turns into double headed arrow, click and hold to drag it upwards about an inch. That should increase the size and let you work with it.

    What menu across the top? You didn't move the taskbar up top?
  • Wrace's avatar
    Wrace
    Explorer
    Dec 28, 2017
    Thanks guys, that appears to have done the trick.

    Edit,
    Ok, maybe not.

    Now the menu bar across the top has disappeared, though it will come up if I hover over the area.

    The task bar (the one across the bottom?)has disappeared and won't come up even when I hover over the area.

    I guess it takes turning off notifications pretty seriously. ;)
  • Rover_Bill's avatar
    Rover_Bill
    Explorer II
    Dec 28, 2017
    If you right click on the X button, the popup menu will allow you to turn off notifications for that specific app.
  • DiskDoctr's avatar
    DiskDoctr
    Explorer
    Dec 28, 2017
    Tap the windows key once, type Notifications to bring up a link in the list directly to notifications. Just a quick way.

    Win 10's feature map is so scrambled between classic locations and panels and all that jazz. But don't worry, Cortana is there to eat up your taskbar and do unwanted websearches when you open the menu, LOL.
  • magicbus's avatar
    magicbus
    Explorer II
    Dec 27, 2017
    Try the Start button then Settings->System->Notifications and turn them off.

    Dave

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