One of the primary quality-of-life features of Microsoft Windows 10 is the Action Centre, which will, amongst other things, notify users when new electronic mail arrives, systems or drivers need updating, and malicious malware and other threats accept been detected. Depending on how y'all fix it up, the Action Center also provides easy access to several key and often accessed configuration settings. But not everyone is enamored with the "benefits" of the Windows 10 Action Center.

In a previously published article, How to tweak the Windows ten Activeness Center to make it less annoying, we showed you how to tone downwardly the number of notifications this feature tracks. However, if you would like to eliminate the Action Center birthday, in that location is a way to do it through a modification of the right configuration setting.

This how-to tutorial shows you how to change a configuration setting deep inside the Windows 10 Personalization screens that will completely disable the Action Heart sidebar notification area from your desktop.

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Disable Windows x Action Centre

In previous iterations of the Windows operating system, disabling the Action Center would accept required a much more than complicated and potentially dangerous tweak to the Registry file. Just, while y'all can even so disable the feature that fashion, the current process for disabling the Action Eye is currently much simpler and safer.

The first stride is to open the Arrangement settings screen past clicking the Kickoff Menu push in the lower right corner of the Windows 10 desktop and so selecting the Settings icon. Y'all could likewise use the Windows Logo key + I keyboard shortcut to attain the same thing. You should meet a screen similar to Figure A.

Click the Personalization item to reach the screen in Effigy B and then select the Taskbar detail from the left navigation bar. Later clicking that item, curlicue down the listings on the right side to find an entry that says Plough icons on or off and click information technology.

On the next screen (Figure C) you lot will run into a long listing of on/off buttons for the various features and settings shortcuts you can add or decrease from the Windows 10 Activeness Center. Amidst the list will be an on/off switch for the Action Center itself.

Switch it to off, and the icon to that feature will be immediately eliminated from the bottom corner of your Windows ten desktop, every bit shown in Effigy D.

Turn the switch back to its "On" position to reactivate the Activeness Center. Note: if yous are working with Windows ten Pro or are in an enterprise setting, disabling the Activity Heart can also be accomplished by accessing the right setting via the Group Policy Editor.