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In earlier versions of Windows 10, clicking a notification rarely accomplished anything useful. Due to user feedback, Microsoft has improved the way the action center is organized and displays information. In recent Windows 10 versions, the system is usable and useful.

With the Anniversary update of Windows 10, version 1607, the Windows 10 action center became just a little more useful, primarily because you can now click a notification and expect something worthwhile to happen. In the November 2019 update of Windows 10, Microsoft finally allowed users to set the kind of notifications they get from their apps.

If you find that a particular program is generating notifications that you don’t want to see, Windows 10 lets you disable all notifications rather easily, or you can pick and choose which apps can send notifications and which just have to stifle their utterances.

Here’s how to disable notifications:

1  Tap or click the Start icon, the Settings icon, and then System.Or you can get into Settings from the bottom of the action center (refer to the All Settings icon near the bottom right of Figure 3-2).

2 On the left, choose Notifications & Actions.You see the Notifications & Actions pane shown in Figure 3-5.FIGURE 3-5: Make changes to how Windows 10 displays notifications.

3 Turn off all notifications by scrolling down and finding the slider marked Get Notifications from Apps and Other Senders and then sliding it to Off.

4 If you would like to silence just one app, scroll down farther (see Figure 3-6), find the app, and move its slider to Off.You’re finished. There’s no Apply or OK button to tap or click. At Step 4, if you click or tap the name of an app instead of moving its slider, you get access to options for controlling how its notifications are displayed. For example, you can disable the sound played for each notification, change the number of notifications visible in the action center for that app, set its priority, and more.

FIGURE 3-6: You can silence notifications from individual apps.