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How do I find what program is keeping the taskbar from auto-hiding?

The name says it all. Taskbar is set to auto-hide, taskbar does not auto-hide, obviously, I want it to auto-hide. Some program is keeping it from doing that. Sometimes I find the culprit quickly if ...
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„Windows Background.wav“ played by taskhostw.exe when certain programs are opened

OS: Windows 10 Home 1909 x64, OS build 18363.752 Whenever I open the Control Panel, Windows Background.wav plays once the window has appeared. It also occurs1 for E1 mod: upon opening Firefox in ...
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Is it possible to adjust Windows 10 notification click area

For a long time, I have been frustrated with Windows 10 notification popups. It seems that when the popup is showing, the area that it consumes is in fact larger than the notification itself. This ...
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How can I disable the "Link your Phone and PC" notification in Windows 10?

The new "Continue on PC" feature that came with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update also includes a notification that pops up saying "Link your Phone and PC". Answering no or clearing the notification ...
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How can I disable program notifications and popups in bottom right corner?

I have an older computer running Windows 7 SP1. I find that some installed programs, like antivirus trial, Flux, etc. decide they want to present some info to me in the form of a smaller screen with ...
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Change the Mac notification sound on a per-application basis

By default on Mac OS X there is a system-wide notification sound that you can choose. This sound is applied to every application and played whenever the application outputs a beep (for instance, when ...
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Windows 10 Notification Center doesn't open the link

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and I discovered that there's a Notification Center. In short, I enabled Facebook push notification and I receive them properly with no problem, but when I open the ...
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How do disable windows 10 notifcations during VLC playback

When I'm watching a movie in VLC, it is incredibly annoying to have the immersive experience ruined by a windows 10 pop up notification. Is there some way to prevent windows 10 notifications while VLC ...
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How can I choose where chrome notifications pop up?

I am running Chrome on Windows 8.1 When I get new notifications, they pop up somewhere in the middle of the screen, instead of in the bottom corner. This is really annoying, as I can't remove them ...
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How to direct Google Chrome Rich Notifications to different monitor/screen?

I'm using Windows 7 at work with two monitors. I'd like to have my notifications appear on the screen that's not assigned as my desktop. Is there any way to do this?
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Outlook desktop alerts don't work while in a full screen RDP window

I have a user running Windows 7 64-bit who's started to use Remote Desktop a lot to remote into our servers. The user is quite important, but he isn't getting his desktop notifications while remoted ...
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How to temporally disable chrome extensions notifications

with new release of chrome 47, i'm not able anymore temporally disable notifications from bell icon in task bar in windows 7 when i play games in window-fullscreen mode, they appear and i prefer not ...
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How to reset the Windows Push Notification Platform?

For my user account, the Windows Push Notification Platform seems to be messed up. I have the following symptoms: In the Settings charm, Notifications is grayed out. The tool-tip is Turned off by ...
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OS X Mountain Lion - See unread notification badge in menu bar or Notification Center icon

Is there a way to show a badge or to highlight the notification center icon where there are unread notifications? A program, an app, anything that do this! A badge on the Notification Center icon or ...
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Do flash-drives/memory-cards fail silently or is there a warning/error?

Scenario Currently, my various data files (the files I create myself and are thus irreplaceable), are spread out over several directories on a couple of system. I want to consolidate them all into ...
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Can I set a hibernation/sleep warning on my laptop

Is it possible to set a hibernation/sleep warning on a laptop like a count down or something? I sometimes bring my laptop to work and access files off it through my work computer. It is sitting at the ...
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Get notified when a specific IP address or website is accessed (windows 10)

My internet provider keeps sending me abuse notifications forwarded from Sony that says something like: Pursuant to Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (SNEI) corporate policy, the below ...
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How can I enable the old HTML5 browser notifications?

I have two computers, both running Windows 10, sitting right next to one another. When notifications come from my browser on Computer 1, it's in a nice little unassuming grey box. On Computer 2, the ...
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Linux: spurious "New Sink" notification with new HDMI graphics card

My machine runs Linux (Debian unstable) at home. I recently replaced my old NVidia graphics card with a newer beast, a Radeon 5600 XT. Part of this device is an HDMI audio controller, as evidenced ...
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Slack: show taskbar badge unread-messages icon only for single workspace

In slack desktop, when you're signed in to several workspaces, how do you make the taskbar unread-messages notification icon (the blue circle) appear only for one given workspace?
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Hearing notification sounds while Windows 10 focus assist is enabled

I love the Windows 10 focus assist feature, it really does filter out most notifications and helps me focus. I am having one issue with it though, some applications still play a notification sound ...
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Disable blue glow tab indicator for notification in Firefox Quantum

I want to disable the blue glow indicator in Firefox Quantum tabs (v. 58.0.2 (64-bit)). The indicator appears below the favicon of the tabs with new content/notifications (see image under Twitter ...
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Is there a way to delay the Outlook "new email" Desktop Alert notification?

One of our users has Desktop Notifications enabled in Outlook 2010 so that she sees a popup alert in the lower-right corner of her screen whenever a new email comes in: This user gets a lot of Spam, ...
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Hide BitLocker "Unlock Drive" Notifications in Windows 10?

In Windows 10, when you mount an BitLocker encrypted drive (vhd in my case), Windows issues a notification prompting you to unlock the drive. Is there a way to turn off this particular notification? ...
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How to get notifications from Twitter?

I have installed the Windows 10 and signed in the native Twitter App. Is it possible to get notification in Action Center when new tweet appears in my feed?
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Skype doesn't always notify about new chat messages

So we are both online and sending each other messages in skype from time to time. I get notifications, answer, and some time later I switch to the Skype window and there are new message about which I ...
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Don't show incoming mail notification for filtered emails in Thunderbird

I use filters to redirect some emails to separate folders, different from my Inbox. Currently, Thunderbird shows a notification for any email message I receive: I want it to show only notifications ...
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kdialog --passivepopup notification only shows up after second message

On an up to date Kubuntu precise, my notifications will only pop up after the second one. I'm using: kdialog --title "foo" --passivepopup "bar" The first one is shown in the system tray only – the ...
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centralized growl forwarder

Multiple services on servers I'm running can be configured to output growl notifications, I'd like a centralized forwarder to run on a Linux box I'm looking for either an implementation or tips on ...
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Thunderbird add-on to toggle mail notification?

The purpose would be to reduce "email notification distraction" in very simple way (e.g. for when I'm extra busy for a little while and do not want even the usual minor distractions). Shutting down ...
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Windows 10: How To Turn Off The Error Sound On A Failed Auto Complete?

Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise When you try an autocomplete in a shell, on Windows 10, where there is no completion Windows 10 plays a harp/chiming sound. I would like to turn that off. I found a ...
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How can I filter Windows 10/11 notifications based on string/regex?

I'm looking for a way to filter Windows 10/11 notifications based on their content, be it string match or even regex. My current use case is that I'm in a Discord server which has a "firehose&...
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How can I completely dismiss a pop-up notification (instead of sending it to the action center)?

So in Windows 10 (currently on Enterprise 21H2 because this is a company computer), notifications appear as a pop-up. If I want to interact with the notifications, I can do that by clicking on the ...
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Ideas for how to triage a bluetooth headset/laptop that makes a reconnection noise whenever I search in either google/edge

I have my phone and laptop connected to a bluetooth headset. Whenver I search on Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge the sound cuts out from my phone, the headset makes a connection noise, and then stays ...
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How to control Windows 10 notifications outside of the "Settings" app (specifically, disabling flux notifications)?

Flux has an incredibly annoying line of notifications that appear to announce that the app has disabled itself, for whatever reason (when I start some application or use the snipping tool), and I can'...
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Forcing Google safesearch blocks android push notifications

I'm attempting to force using google safesearch at a network level in dnsmasq. The following statement forces any dns query to google.com to redirect to the specified safesearch ip address. address=/...
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How to get rid of the Youtube Notifications "Close" button?

I've scoured the internet and starting to feel like I'm the only one that's actually getting this because there's absolutely no information about it or how to change it. To turn on the notifications ...
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Outlook 365: Play notification sound only once every X minutes

Currently I have my settings to display a notification and play a sound whenever I receive a new email. However, I often, like many others, receive multiple emails at the same time or within a few ...
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Turn off firewall notifications Windows 10

I am trying to disable firewall notifications on Windows 10. I am talking about the notifications that pop up in the bottom right corner balloon-like icon. I followed a few steps I looked up on the ...
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Firefox notifications timeout

When I receive a notification, a window pops up and stays for around 4 sec. How can I change the timeout to something else ? I have Firefox ESR 52 Also, can I change the background color of the ...
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Windows 10 notifications come late and all at the same time

Sometimes my notifications (from any source - Outlook, Slack, Cortana reminders...) are on time and sometimes they all come late. When they are late (sometimes by hours) they all show up together at ...
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Set Windows 10 volume box (notification) timer

The timer for Windows 10 notification box for the volume level (figure above) is set to 5 seconds by default. Its duration can be modified in Settings > Ease of Access > Display by changing the value ...
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Google Music causes Windows Notification sound for each new track

Chrome 68 introduced notifications in the Windows built-in notification system. Google Play Music shows a notification for each track as it begins which causes the system to play the sound for a new ...
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How to keep Mac OSX Notifications Panel Open?

How to keep Mac OSX Notifications Panel Open?! The sidebar Notifications panel how to keep this open and not close.
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Can Windows 10 notifications be forwarded to another computer?

I have a home server running Windows 10 Pro. Since there isn't an active monitor attached to it most of the time, I don't tend to find out about any notifications until I remote desktop to it for ...
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How to volume control certain system sounds and notifications in Windows 10?

Since upgrading to windows 10 I've noticed that some application no longer turn up in the Volume Mixer, and I'm unable to configure their notification sounds/volume like I was able to in Windows 7. ...
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notify-send with sudo not showing any notifications

In short: I have a scripting finding, fixing and mounting a partition, thus this needs sudo / su permissions. System: Gnome 16.04 - amd64 notify-send "a message" that shows a notification as ...
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Disable All Chrome Notifications on PC

I'd like to temporarily disable all notifications from Chrome quickly. All notifications include: Website notifications (Facebook) Notifications from apps/extensions How would I do this? Goal is to ...
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Caps and Num Lock Notifications in Windows 10

A few months ago I bought a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard. It installed some Microsoft proprietary software for itself that automatically set a notification to appear in the bottom right-hand ...
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How can I make notifications in Windows 10 not interfere with full screen games?

Many full screen games ( specifically League of Legends in my case ) will only run on the primary monitor. Unfortunately, Windows 10 notifications also seem to only appear on the primary monitor, even ...
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