Questions tagged [notifications]
An active reminder of video or audio to alert of a condition
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How to disable USB connect notification sound?
I've asked a similar question before, but that one was too much focused on fixing the underlaying problem. I don't have high hopes that this is fixable, it might be some sort of spasm of my mainboard.
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Why does Windows play a notification sound when I turn on an external light next to my laptop? [duplicate]
This question is similar to (but the answer is not ok):
Why does Windows 8 plays a sound when I switch on an external light?
I have a large fluorescent light above my desktop, sometimes when I turned ...
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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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How to Simply Dismiss Google Calendar Notification With Opera Browser
When I use Google Calendar with Opera browser, and I click on the "Close" or the "Snooze" button, it opens the dialog to edit the Event. When I use Edge or Chrome, clicking on ...
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Is it possible to dismiss in one go, all Web Browser notifications in Microsoft Edge web browser?
I am usually working on one computer but I sometimes switch to another. On the 2nd one, I enabled Web notifications from the instant messaging website Slack, in MS-Edge, since I don't want to miss a ...
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how to disable "Background items Added" notification in mac os Ventura
In mac os Venture, everytime when we start the macBook, keep getting the notification of background-Item, although I can customize which app need to run background but annoyed by repeatadely ...
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Taskbar won't hide when there are notifications
My Windows 11 taskbar is set to hide automatically, however if there is a notification it will not hide until I have opened the program the notification came from (typically, an MS Teams message, or a ...
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Using WSL notify-send when Windows Focus Mode is on
I use the WSL Notify Send tool to send notifications from WSL to Windows. I can do the following in bash:
notify-send "hello from wsl"
...and the notification is shown as a standard Windows ...
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Outlook new email notification banner - can't figure out how to silence
I appreciate how many alerts I can turn off, but there's one I still can't figure out. I use the Focused folder, which is a great help. But if another email arrives, I get a notification like the one ...
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Can I make Outlook toast notifications smaller in Windows 10?
I disabled Windows 10 notifications originally, but I find that I miss the Outlook 'new mail' notifications that I am used back when I ran Windows 7, so I have re-enabled notifications for Outlook ...
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How to get notification if a Windows Task Manager job failed? [duplicate]
I have several scheduled tasks inside the Windows Task Manager.
Is there any way to get notifications displayed for me as the user, if the execution of the task failed (the return code of the called ...
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windows notifications sometimes steal focus
I noticed that whenever a notification bubble appears (The Windows builtin notifications thing, see Settings / Notifications & actions) it takes away focus from the active window.
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I ...
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Find which program is associated with notification permissions
I have a program masquerading as Edge pushing notifications to my desktop. I'd like to get rid of it, but all I get is the fake name "Microsoft Edge". How can I find what programs are ...
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Thunderbird notification only in workingshours
I would like to receive thunderbird notifications only between 9 to 5, when an E-mail arrives. But I can only enable and disable it generaly under Settings -> Serverkonfiguration. How can I ...
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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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On macOS Chrome is not running in the background and seems to shut off when all windows are closed
Chrome used to be active in the background when all windows are closed but the app is still running. It seems something (my settings, Chrome's settings, some update?) changed this behavior. Bitwarden ...
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Push notifications of Microsoft Edge 104 broken
I use this site as an example
https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html
In Chrome and old versions of Edge, the notifications will look like this:
The title is Chrome and the bottom shows the ...
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How can I monitor every requests from Windows notifications?
I would like to intercept the whole object from the Windows notifications post request coming from remote connection.
A user Eugene Gagarin, have shared a proof of concept about the feasibility to ...
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Windows 10: Can't get Rid of Malware Popups Notifications Spoofing Antivirus [duplicate]
I'm using Windows 10 Home, and I'm this popup, that keeps coming up at random times, at least hourly:
And, just a few minutes ago, this:
I have disabled all popups in Internet Options.
I ran ...
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How can remove news popup icon from windows search bar? [duplicate]
I manage to disable "News & Interest" in taskbar at bottom right but still I am getting news in windows Serach Bar. How can I disable this in Windows Serach bar?
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Dismissing teams notifications from Notification area (of windows 10/11)
Applicable to windows 10/11 and Microsoft Teams users:
Current way my teams notifications work:
message comes up in notification area (windows 10)
teams icon in taskbar flashes with number of ...
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Your privacy settings blocked access to your location
On a computer with Windows 11, about every week, I get a notification saying, "Your privacy settings blocked access to your location", and "If you want to change these settings, go to ...
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Windows 10: How to disable this notification?
This insanely annoying notifications keeps up showing up daily:
How could I please disable it? I remember doing something with regedit about this, but it didn't work apparently.
There is no such ...
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How to disable update notifications in High Sierra?
I cant for the life of me figure out how to disable the notifications that persistently annoy me in High Sierra. These happen every single day at the top right of screen. A quick web search says that ...
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how to open ms-settings:notifications pointing to my application's page?
this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/launch-settings-app#system explains how to use the the ms-settings URIs to open specific pages of the windows settings application.
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Receive GitHub "subscribed to new repository" email notifications in different inbox
I receive GitHub email notifications about new repositories on my personal email, since I have checked the "Email" box of "Organization alerts" under https://github.com/settings/...
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How to show action buttons (reply/mark read/delete) in KMail notifications?
The KMail shows a notification when receiving new letter, but is it possible to add Action Buttons to the notification? Such as open, mark as spam, mark as read, delete and so on.
The setting in kmail ...
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How to block all vendor-app notification and bottom-right corner pop-ups of Windows (11) Desktop?
They are very distractive. I want to totally silence apps running in the tray or background and prevent from from creating any windows or pop-ups unless I explicitly open the app.
In short, when I am ...
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Teams doesn't respect the setting "no notifications for reactions"
Teams version: 1.5.00.5967
OS: Windows 11
Teams has customisable settings for Notifications.
I want notifications for messages, replies, mentions etc. but not likes and reactions. Those are when ...
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Windows 11 - "Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar" setting won't stick on reboot
I upgraded my computer to Windows 11 a few months ago and this issue has been plaguing me ever since. I wanted to enable all notification icons in the taskbar but the "Always show all icons and ...
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How do I display an alert window using a rule in Outlook when I receive a reply to a Flagged Email?
I have learned to flag emails in Outlook, to keep track of the important ones.
When I receive a reply to one of these emails, it would be nice if a rule would display an alert on my screen, so that I'...
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How do I set the volume on a Windows app that makes intermittent sound?
I am getting blasted by email notifications from MS Outlook. Note that I have Windows system sounds set to 'None', so it is not the "system" email notification that I am hearing. It is ...
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Is it possible to make Windows 10 notifications usable?
I want to use Windows 10 notifications but in their default state they are pretty much useless. They disappear after 5s without any possibility to review them in a history. You can extend the ...
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How can I save Google Chrome or Windows 10 Notification and export as CSV or other format?
I have so many Google Chrome notifications and after 20 notification Windows 10 doesn't allow me to see the older ones. That's why it has very necessary to save them. Is there any plugin that can save ...
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MacOs - Show notifications summary when do not disturb mode is disabled
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I suffer from Slack and e-mail notification distractions at work. Currently, I have the "do not disturb" mode enabled for 8 hours a day, which covers my work time. It work's ...
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"PATCH DATA RECEIVED" message. For what and from whom?
I'm running Windows 10 Pro, 21H2. Just now I got a message I don't understand. It doesn't say who it's from or what it's for.
Here's the popup I saw (sorry about the darkness, I just barely caught it ...
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Why does the enable-system-notifications flag no longer work in chrome?
I'm trying to get native/system notifications working on Chrome (so that they show up in the action center), but I can't get them work.
I've tried the chrome://flags/#enable-system-notifications flag, ...
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Are linux notifications logged somewhere?
I sometimes get a notification in the corner of the screen and don't have/take the time to read it before it disappears. That shouldn't be a major issue in general, since major issues should be ...
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Windows 10 notification bar vanishes suddenly and never open by click on it
I am in windows 10 os.
When i click on notification area (1), it is displayed for less than 5 seconds and vanishes suddenly and never display by click on (1) again.
Also when i right click on (1) and ...
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How to configure Windows notifications & actions to receive Teams notifications?
I can set the Teams notification to "Windows" in the Teams settings:
but I cannot find Teams as a sender in the Windows notification & actions config page (showing list sorted by name, ...
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How do I disable the beep/bell sound in iTerm2 in macbook?
The shell in macbook makes annoying beep/bell/boop sounds.
For the OEM terminal, this answer works on disabling this annoying sounds:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19166539/i-want-to-disable-...
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Chrome notifications appear bigger and off-screen
I have Windows 10 and the latest version of Chrome.
As of this morning, all desktop notifications from Chrome suddenly appear much bigger than before and off-screen. Meaning, they are not attached to ...
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Turn off "You're presenting to everyone" Windows notifications during Google Meet screen sharing
Whenever I present my screen during a Google Meet meeting, I get a notification in my Windows 10 notification center with the following message:
You're presenting to everyone. Click here to return to ...
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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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Gmail Desktop Notifications popping up, but not staying in Action Center
I have successfully turned on Desktop Notifications in Gmail for every new message:
My Gmail settings with desktop notifications on for new emails
So when a new email comes in, I get notified by popup:...
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How to remove my mouse from the "Safely Remove Hardware"
All of a sudden my mouse appeared in the "Safely Remove Hardware" list after 6 years of usage. I'm wondering why did this behavior suddenly happen overnight. There was no update to the ...
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How to get UPS notifications in Windows 10?
When the UPS switches over to battery power (e.g., when the mains power cuts off or goes out of spec), I'd expect to (and like to) see a notification bubble (toast) in the notification area. Is there ...
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Can I only stop OneDrive memorable photos to show up?
It seems that the OneDrive is always showing notifications of historical photos (Look back at your memories) from time to time in the Windows Notifications. I want to disable it, but still keep the ...
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Notification when a user comes online in Discord
I am using Discord and I would like to get a notification sound when my friend Mike comes online. I would like to get a notification only when he comes online, and not for other friends. If that ...
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How to disable the mute/unmute notification which appears on desktop
How do I disable the mute notification which appears on the desktop while pressing the keyboard shortcut mute/unmute button with the name of the artist and the song.
Adding the Snip of the ...
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