How to Disable All Toast Notifications on Windows 10

Do you want to disable toast notifications once and for all?

In an earlier tutorial, I have shown you how to stop notifications on Windows 10 using the Settings App.

Today you will learn a more general approach, we are going to disable toast notifications for all of Windows 10 apps and system notifications.

We will be using the Group Policy Editor and Registry Editor.

Let’s go!

Disable Windows 10 Toast Notifications Using Group Policy

Open your Run prompt using Windows+R keyboard shortcut, type in gpedit.msc, hit Enter.

Go to “User Configuration” > “Administrative Templates” > “Start Menu and Taskbar” > “Notifications”

Double-click on “Turn off toast notifications“.

Check “Enabled” and click “OK“. You don’t need a restart.

Disable Windows 10 Toast Notifications Using Registry

Open the Registry Editor using the command regedit in Run.

Go to this path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Right-click on “Windows” and choose “New” > “Key“.

Create a new “DWORD (32-bit) Value” and name it DisableNotificationCenter.

Change the value of “DisableNotificationCenter” to 1. Click “OK“.

There you have it!

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