Windows 10, stop notifications

[Wrace]

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

[DiskDoctr]

Wrace wrote:

DiskDoctr wrote:
You might have put Firefox in full screen mode. When you're in FF, Hit F11. See if it looks familiar. F11 again un-full-screens 😉

Glad you're getting it figured out :C

Ha! Looks like that's exactly what I did.:S
Thanks

Great news! Now you have a new trick up your sleeve 😉

Thanks for reporting back :C

[Wrace]

DiskDoctr wrote:
You might have put Firefox in full screen mode. When you're in FF, Hit F11. See if it looks familiar. F11 again un-full-screens 😉

Glad you're getting it figured out :C

Ha! Looks like that's exactly what I did.:S
Thanks

[DiskDoctr]

You might have put Firefox in full screen mode. When you're in FF, Hit F11. See if it looks familiar. F11 again un-full-screens 😉

Glad you're getting it figured out :C

[monkey44]

Just tagging this discussion 🙂

[drsteve]

Wrace wrote:

drsteve wrote:
What menu bar are you looking at?

On the top of the screen - I'm calling it a menu bar but maybe it's just the browser bars (fire fox).

It has the tabs on top and the url, forward/back, bookmarks, home, print etc.

Maybe I should get my laptop (win 10) and look through the settings and compare to the desk top. Laptop works fine.

Thanks

Ah, you're talking about the Firefox menu bar! That's not a Windows setting. Hover your mouse up there, and when the bar appears, click the Menu icon on the right. Then click Full Screen.

[Wrace]

Alright,

Well I guess this is somewhat embarrassing, but here is what I discovered.

I rarely work out of windows desktop. Always have the browser and various tabs open, and just work out of the browser. I had occasion this afternoon to go to the desk top and low and behold, there was the task bar showing again. Go back to the browser and the task bar disappeared.

Restarted FF and the task bar is back in the browser.

Go back to the notifications settings and turn notifications off (again) and so far the task bar is still there...

And it appears the visual and audio notifications of what song is playing, and camera uploads is now gone.

The visual notification of a received email is gone, but I think the audio notification is still there. I'll have to test it some more, but my wife is tired of sending me 'test' emails this evening. 🙂 There may be some settings relative to notification in outlook 2016 I need to look at for this.

Thanks again!

[Wrace]

drsteve wrote:
What menu bar are you looking at?

On the top of the screen - I'm calling it a menu bar but maybe it's just the browser bars (fire fox).

It has the tabs on top and the url, forward/back, bookmarks, home, print etc.

Maybe I should get my laptop (win 10) and look through the settings and compare to the desk top. Laptop works fine.

Thanks

[Wrace]

magicbus wrote:
When the task bar is visible try right-clicking on it and then select Lock the task bar. Maybe that'll work.
Dave

I did try that and the check box is checked to lock the task bar.

[drsteve]

What menu bar are you looking at?

[magicbus]

When the task bar is visible try right-clicking on it and then select Lock the task bar. Maybe that'll work.

Dave

[Wrace]

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]

I'm so done with Windows. Loaded Linux Mint onto a partition and it works fine without all the Windows bloat and nonsense

[DiskDoctr]

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]

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. 😉