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I'm using Windows 10 (Anniversary Update + plus recent updates) and I like to have the setting "get notifications from apps and other senders" turned off. Every time I reboot Windows, this setting gets switched from "off" to "on". How do I prevent this?

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Reset to default
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The answer by @michalkralik describes how to turn off "get notifications from apps and other senders". This is probably equivalent to your turning it off yourself, which you say lasts only until the next boot.

If some stronger setting is required, the article How to disable Notification and Action Center in Windows 10 shows how to totally disable the Action Center and all its notifications by setting in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explor‌​er the DWORD item DisableNotificationCenter to 1.

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  • This worked as you described and is a good enough solution for now. Thank you.
    – codeymccodeface
    Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 20:11
  • Spoke too soon. Something re-activated the Action Center and Notifications. I sure wish I could figure out what's doing it.
    – codeymccodeface
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 14:48
  • As an aside, nothing shows up in virus/spyware/malware scans per Windows Defender and Malwarebytes.
    – codeymccodeface
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 14:50
  • Interesting: What has happened to this registry key - has it been deleted or has its value changed? It's possible that a Windows Update has changed something.
    – harrymc
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 19:38
  • The value is still set to 1
    – codeymccodeface
    Commented Dec 15, 2016 at 20:07
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Run the following command to turn off the notifications

Reg Add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications" /v ToastEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

This sets HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications\ToastEnabled registry key to value 0 and disables "get notifications from apps and other senders".

You need to restart Windows for this to take effect.

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  • I will try and let you know what happens.
    – codeymccodeface
    Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 18:59
  • This did not work, a restart makes the setting come back to "on".
    – codeymccodeface
    Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 19:57
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Searched for this several times, and could not find an answer which worked. So today I decided to do this the "debug" way: In a VirtualMachine with Windows:

  1. Open regedit and export the complete registry; close regedit
  2. Go to Settings -> Notifications & actions
  3. disable everything you don´t want or need
  4. Open regedit again and export the complete registry again
  5. Use a diff program like BeyondCompare to find the differences, filter out the ones which do not fit

This left me with the changes as shown in the following picture (I greyed the ID following HKEY_USERS as it is most probably different for your user): Which notification setting changes which registry value

Then I used another VirtualMachine with a freshly installed windows (tested with Windows 10 2004), and only changed the Reg values there. After a restart (this is probably possible even before that), I provoked a Notification, but nothing did occur. Changing the reg-key back and forth and provoking the notification showed it with Notifications turned on, and again did not show it after turning it off. So this is working for me.

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