Questions tagged [notifications]
An active reminder of video or audio to alert of a condition
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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
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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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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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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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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 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 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 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?
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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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