How to disable Notification and Action Center in Windows 10

The new Notification & Action Center in Windows 10 looks great. The Action Center is split into two major sections – Notifications and Quick Actions and lets you take a look at all the notifications from all different apps, and even the system. But if you wish, you can disable Action Center in Windows 10. Let us see how to do it by tweaking the Windows Registry.

Disable Notification & Action Center in Windows 10
First create a system restore point and then right-click on Start button to open the WinX Menu.
Select Run, and in the space provided, type regedit and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.
Having done that, navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Now, right-click on the empty space in the right pane and select New > DWORD (32-bit).
Name it DisableNotificationCenter.
Now, double-click on it and give it a value of 1.
Click on OK and exit the Registry Editor.

By following these instructions, you will have disabled the Notification and Action Center in Windows 10.
Restart your computer to see the change.

You will find that the Action Center is missing from the taskbar!
To enable Action Center back, simply delete DisableNotificationCenter or change its value to 0 and restart your Windows 10 PC.


How to disable Windows Backup notification in Windows 7 and 8

By default, in Windows 8, Windows 7 & Windows Vista, Windows Backup notifies end-users to configure Windows Backup. Notifications can appear in the Action Center after seven days without having configured Windows Backup, or when an end-user attaches an external hard drive.
Disable Windows Backup Notification
If you do not intend to enable Windows Backup, and instead provide a third-party backup solution to end users, you may disable the Windows Backup notifications.
Windows Backup notifications are controlled by a registry key. This registry key is not present in default Windows installations. To disable Windows Backup notifications, you must manually add a registry key.

To do so, open regedit and navigate to the following location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsBackup
Now under WindowsBackup, in the RHS pane, open a new DWORD and name it as DisableMonitoring, and set its value to ‘1‘.
Exit regedit.
If this key is set to 0, or if this key does not exist, then Windows Backup will display notifications to the end user to configure Windows Backup.
If this key is set to 1, and an end-user has not already configured Windows Backup, then notifications to configure Windows Backup will not be displayed to the end user in the Action Center, or when a user attaches an external hard disk.
Sourced from: Technet Libraries.
UPDATE: You can also do the following. Open Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Action Center\Change Action Center.

Check, un-check the options you want, click OK and Exit.

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