I am having a strange issue with notifications not appearing in the notification center as well as notifications not appearing in general. This started happening as soon as I enabled the Group Policy setting for "Let Windows apps access notifications" and set it to "User is in control". I am using Windows 10 build 17763.107. Here is an image of what my notification center looks like: I have tried disabling the Group Policy setting in question, but the notification center still remains as shown above. This issue is also happening on a laptop I have which has the latest updates and the same Group Policy configuration as my PC. Can someone please help me to fix this issue?
And its only gonna get worse. Wait until the internet comes through the mains supply, the only way to turn it off is to turn the machine off. A great quote i saw somewhere, 1984 was not a training manual for how to build your utopia.
So I will need to reinstall Windows on my PC? EDIT: I was also wondering if there was a way to fix the issue by going into the registry, since another person on here called Feniksrising encountered the same exact issue(except it was triggered by changing the background app setting) and managed to fix it by going into the registry.
what is your processor and is the computer warm to the touch. that's a typical problem with hot processors. I mean it was.. this is 1809? yes I remember. they fixed it real fast. just go insider.
Windows Explorer= Internet explorer. Cortana = the User. then you have the rest of the Office Subsystem.. all of that. Outlook. .. then down the line is user mode ... that's a wall, then there is driver mode.. > cache cleaning? -- > kernel. Am I on the right track here?
I am using a Ryzen 7 1800X overclocked to 3.9 GHz. But I doubt that this is processor dependent, as it also happened on a laptop with an i5 4200U.
The only thing I can think of is that in the Privacy settings under Background apps, if you disable "Let apps run in the background" in 1809 then no notifications from anything will appear, at all. Make sure that setting is enabled or look for and delete the following registry entries to restore default behavior: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\BackgroundAccessApplications] "GlobalUserDisabled" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search] "BackgroundAppGlobalToggle"
oh I was gonna try that u mean put a different drive in another computer they changed it so that is the default now. I forgot about that too. unless u are still setting things up remember you can CTRL-ALT-ESC and turn off windows explorer at any time and just use powershell. it's not the end of the world. all that privacy weirdness evaporates
Who is "they"? And no I am not still "setting things up". The default behavior on an unmodified installation is to allow background apps and disabling said option disables all notifications in 1809.
if you have privileges to turn off windows explorer it automatically makes you the admnistrator and logs off everyone else. but you need permission from the executive which is the activiation
None of those keys seemed to exist, but before I checked for them I changed it to enable background applications, and the notifications were working after a reboot. Very annoying change by Microsoft for seemingly no reason at all. EDIT: They existed on my main PC, so I deleted them and restarted Explorer. Notifications were working once again. Thanks for giving me the solution!
I was really annoyed by it as well (and forgot the reboot part ). I am not sure what 'background apps' have to do with receiving notifications either. I recall "Windows Explorer" once being listed as a 'background app' in earlier versions, is no longer listed and disabling it now will even suppress Explorer notifications (such as when you safely eject external media).
I am wondering if it has to do with the Explorer UWP app that keeps appearing in the start menu on my laptop, even after I unpin it.