Top 3 Ways In Disabling The Action Center in Windows 10

Windows 10 Action Center is the central hub for all notifications from the applications you have installed from the Microsoft store. The notifications are displayed as a single pop-up with an ignoring sound that catches you off guard. Don’t get me wrong, the Action Center is a handy feature within Windows 10 for seeing all recent notifications you have missed.  But sometimes, you don’t want to get those notifications and want to disable them. Here are 3 ways in disabling the notification center within Windows 10.

Top 1: Disabling Action Center within Settings

Step 1: Start > Settings

Step 2: Click on “System”

Step 3: Click on “Notification & Actions” > “Turns system icons on or off”

Step 4: Turn off Action Center

Top 2: Disabling Action Center with Local Group Policy

Step 1: Do a Windows Key + R command and type in “gpedit.msc”

Step 2: Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar > “Remove Notifications and Action Center”

Step 3: Enabled the policy.

Top 3: Disabling Action Center within the Registry

Step 1: Do a Windows Key + R command and type in “regedit”

Step 2: Navigate to:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER > SOFTWARE > Policies > Microsoft > Windows

Step 3: Create a Key within Windows and called it “Explorer”

Step 4: Within the Explorer key create a DWORD (32-bit) Value and called it “DisableNotificationCenter” and the value should be 1