When an alert appears in the Notification Center, you can click the small X icon to dismiss it, or the down arrow and the three dots to further configure notifications for that program—you get ...

To turn off notifications on a Windows 10 computer, you'll need to open your system's "Notifications and actions settings" menu. Here's how.

The default for most notification area icons is "Hide when inactive." To always hide or always show an icon, select it and choose Hide or Show on the drop-down menu that appears. Windows 7's ...

Now, use the toggle in front of the Windows Security notification icon to hide or show its icon. Read: How to remove Windows Defender Icon from Notification Area. 2] Via Registry Editor.

For example, I don’t want the Windows 7 Action Center icon cluttering up my Tray, but I do want to hear from it when there’s an issue–so I’ve set it to Only show notifications.

All Windows 11 users will start to see these new widget notifications in the coming days and weeks, thanks to an update to the Windows Web Experience Pack that powers Microsoft’s widgets feature.

You can restore missing or hide the Safely Remove Hardware icon from the Notification Area using drag-and-drop, via Settings or using this Batch file.

You can clear all the notifications en masse by clicking on the "Notifications" icon by your clock and then clicking the "Clear Messages" command.

Microsoft is revisiting how search functions in the Windows 11 taskbar, while users could also soon get a small shield icon on their taskbar's system tray to indicate when a PC is connected to a ...

To schedule a custom notification with this method, launch Windows Search (press Windows+S), type Task Scheduler, and open the utility. From the menu bar, select Action > Create Basic Task.

If you press the key combination Alt-Shift-Esc or right-click an empty area in the taskbar, you can launch the Task Manager ...

Even after almost 40 years and countless versions, Windows still has numerous functional deficits. But these are easy to fix, as are annoying settings, adverts, and notifications.