33 votes

Windows 10 New Snip & Sketch Tool notification missing

Had this happen to me in the last few days - tried the various options above, to no avail Turns out it was just the App itself (Which apparently https://superuser.com/users/1079976/john answered in a ...
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18 votes
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Remove Outlook from the Windows 10 Action Center

In the Settings app, go to System > Notifications & actions, find Outlook and turn off the toggle in the same row. Personally, I found it better to let the toggle on, click the whole Outlook row ...
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Windows 10 New Snip & Sketch Tool notification missing

Had the same problem worked fine for several weeks, then suddenly no more popups. This fixed it for me: Right click on the notfication center icon in the taskbar Focus Assist switch to Off (was set ...
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View past notifications in Windows 10 and 11?

I've found one way to view past notifications, though only very recent ones. In Windows 10, the notifications are stored in \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\...
Debie Downer's user avatar
12 votes

Windows 10 New Snip & Sketch Tool notification missing

To enable notifications from the Snip & Sketch Tool: Start Settings Click on System Click on Notif‌ications & actions Find Snip & Sketch and set it to On
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View past notifications in Windows 10 and 11?

You can use a paid Notification Logger app from the Microsoft Store to view past notifications history. I'm the author of this app.
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10 votes

Windows 10 New Snip & Sketch Tool notification missing

Just throwing in my experience, looks like I had deliberately switched off notifications (on a global level), which unintentionally includes Snip & Sketch. The app was installed properly and such. ...
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Windows 10 New Snip & Sketch Tool notification missing

I got the same problem. My issue was because the Snip and Sketch tool was not installed on my Windows. The Win + Shift + S shortcut works without it, but it only copy the scrot to the clipboard. If ...
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9 votes
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Suppress "Windows Defender Antivirus did not find any threats..." notification on Windows 10

You can turn off Enhanced Notifications for Windows Defender: Press Windows + i. Click Update & Security. From the Update & security sidebar, click Windows Defender. Scroll to the Enhanced ...
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7 votes
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Create notification from command line in Windows 10

In PowerShell you can run (from here): [reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname("System.Windows.Forms") [reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname("System.Drawing") $notify = new-object system....
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Windows 10 airplane mode showing as enabled in action center

This seems to be a known bug. After logging in to your PC, you may hit a UI issue in which Airplane Mode will incorrectly show as “on” even though your PC’s Wi-Fi is powered on. This is due to a ...
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5 votes
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How to stop windows 10 action center from notifying me whenever I receive an email?

If you click the Settings icon (gear symbol) in the Mail App, you will see a Notifications option. You can configure how notifications are handled for each email account.
David Marshall's user avatar
4 votes

View past notifications in Windows 10 and 11?

The accepted answer may have been right at the time of writing but is no longer correct. As mentioned in Debie Downer's answer Windows 10/11 stores notifications in an SQLite database, so there's a ...
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3 votes

Move action center to the left side of screen?

This is not possible. This question has been asked several times in the Microsoft support forums going back to 2017 and each time the reply from Microsoft employees is that this is "by design" and ...
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3 votes

Suppress "Windows Defender Antivirus did not find any threats..." notification on Windows 10

This is essentially the same answer as the one by Ashton above, but Microsoft seems to have moved the option again: In the "Windows Defender Security Center" (you can just Windows-search for it) ...
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3 votes

Windows: Completely remove Action Center icon

Here's the trick! Forget about other answers to this issue. Just go to: Settings > Personalisation > Taskbar > Notification Area > "Turn system icons on or off". Yes, Personalisation! None of the ...
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3 votes

Command line argument to open Action Center Settings

just make the shortcut of the adress and execute the shortcut via command line. open it first using the wscui.cpl, then click the button you want to display the window. in the adress bar right-click ...
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3 votes
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Notification and Action center is gone

Go to Control Panel | Notification Area Icons. Click "Turn System icons on or off" and make sure that the icon for Action Center is set to On: If your setting is grayed out, this can have to do with ...
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3 votes
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Windows 10: Purpose of "Network" toggle in the Action Centre

If you used an Ethernet cable to attach to the network, that would indicate a connection just like the WiFi one does. It doesn't do anything because Windows does not detect a connection. If it were ...
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2 votes

Remove Outlook from the Windows 10 Action Center

You can also disable those notifications in Outlook itself. Currently, in Outlook 365, it's under "File" > "Options" > "Mail", section "Message arrival", ...
Alexandre's user avatar
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2 votes

Windows 10 New Snip & Sketch Tool notification missing

It's actually explorer.exe not working properly. If you restart it through the Task Manager it goes back to normal.
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2 votes

Windows 10 Action Center only appears when a new notification occurs

Solution 1 (Confirmed) I had this issue on one Windows 10 PC and the solution that worked for me was from admin elevated PowerShell command prompt I ran: Get-AppxPackage | % { Add-AppxPackage -...
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1 vote

Notifications won't open when I click on them on Windows 10

In Windows 10, there are a number of different dialogs that control notifications. In Settings | Notifications & actions, you may need to turn on Get notifications from apps and other senders, as ...
DrMoishe Pippik's user avatar
1 vote

Windows 10 notifications not activating the associated app when clicking on it

I can confirm I have this same issue. Doesn't occur on Windows 11. Same code works fine. Only issue on Windows 10 21H2 and can see the Activation event isn't even fired. A dismissed event works ok ...
Matt Walsh's user avatar
1 vote
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Windows 10 Focus Assist turns on when I press Winkey + D

Found the solution. It appears the Desktop is a full screen app. The fix is to disable "When I'm using an app in full screen mode" under Automatic Rules. More info: the issue is related with Nvidia ...
user3154748's user avatar
1 vote

Windows 10 New Snip & Sketch Tool notification missing

There are some things you could try before reinstalling Windows 10: Check if you turned Focus Assist on Check if some weird "system cleaning" software deletes Snip & Sketch (Requires ...
march_happy's user avatar
1 vote

Show notifications in action center setting not working for Slack

Nope, there is no way of eating your cake and keeping it too: it's an all or nothing setting in Windows 10. What I did was turning it off entirely on Windows 10: I still see the red or blue ball on ...
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Windows 10 Action Center doesn't show notification history

I'm asking about why the notification "toasts" (again, I don't know the Windows terminology) are never making it into the Action Center in the first place. The toast notifications are transient by ...
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1 vote
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Windows 10: Missing brightness toggle from action center

The best I can find to offer you, is the brightness slider in Power Options. You can find in one of two ways: Right-clicking the Start Menu button, and it will be the third option. Type Power ...
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1 vote

turn off messages for Security and Maintenance (Action Center) items in windows 10

Source: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/platforms_lync_cloud/2017/05/05/disabling-windows-10-action-center-notifications/#comment-355 I've been looking for an automated solution to disable the ...
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