How to adjust your Windows 10 notifications
Chris Wanamaker2018-09-14T10:02:51-07:00
Unless the computer app is critical for your work, alerts about a new patch update or incoming message can distract you. Luckily, you can personalize your notifications settings on Windows 10’s action center using these three simple steps.
Overarching action center settings
First of all, you should customize your Windows 10 system-wide notifications settings. To view these:
- Click on the Cortana icon on your taskbar and type ‘Notifications’.
- Click ‘Notifications & actions settings’.
Here, you can turn off alerts entirely or customize the alerts for core functions such as alarms, reminders, and incoming VoIP calls.
Settings for individual applications
If you want to take a far more nuanced approach to your notifications, there are advanced options to create rules on an app-by-app basis. At the bottom of the ‘Notifications & actions’ setting screen is a section titled ‘Get notifications from these senders.’ By enabling any of the items in this list, you can open a new window full of more graded notifications options. From here, users can specify lock screen, sound, […]
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