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Notifications
Notification, focus, badge, and toast behavior.
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays pop-up tips and feature suggestions while using the operating system.
Technical Details: Displays pop-up tips and feature suggestions while using the operating system.
"Windows will occasionally surface notifications offering advice or recommending built-in tools."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays Microsoft feature recommendations inside the Action Center panel.
Technical Details: Displays Microsoft feature recommendations inside the Action Center panel.
"Your notification center will include promotional suggestions for Windows features alongside your app alerts."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Shows occasional prompts to configure additional Microsoft services and features.
Technical Details: Shows occasional prompts to configure additional Microsoft services and features.
"Windows will display suggestions to set up features like OneDrive, Windows Hello, or Microsoft 365."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays the notification bell icon in the taskbar system tray.
Technical Details: Displays the notification bell icon in the taskbar system tray.
"The bell icon will appear on your taskbar to indicate pending notifications and provide access to the Action Center."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Allows Windows and apps to show toast notifications on your screen.
Technical Details: Allows Windows and apps to show toast notifications on your screen.
"Applications and system services will display pop-up banners in the lower right corner of your screen."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays app and system notifications while your PC is locked.
Technical Details: Displays app and system notifications while your PC is locked.
"You can read incoming messages and alerts without unlocking your computer. This provides convenience but allows anyone physically near your screen to read your notifications."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays high-priority alerts like calls and alarms on the lock screen.
Technical Details: Displays high-priority alerts like calls and alarms on the lock screen.
"Incoming voice calls and scheduled alarms will appear even when your PC is locked."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays an alert when an application tries to read your geographic location.
Technical Details: Displays an alert when an application tries to read your geographic location.
"You will receive a notification and a prompt when software requests your PC's physical location."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays alerts about system backups, troubleshooting, and general PC maintenance.
Technical Details: Displays alerts about system backups, troubleshooting, and general PC maintenance.
"Windows will prompt you about needed drive optimizations, failed backups, and other maintenance tasks."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Shows alerts from Windows Defender regarding malware and firewall activity.
Technical Details: Shows alerts from Windows Defender regarding malware and firewall activity.
"Windows Security will notify you about blocked threats, required scans, and account protection issues."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Notifies you when apps access sensitive capabilities like your microphone or camera.
Technical Details: Notifies you when apps access sensitive capabilities like your microphone or camera.
"You will see a toast notification whenever a background application begins using privacy-sensitive hardware."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Alerts you when Windows automatically adjusts the time for Daylight Saving.
Technical Details: Alerts you when Windows automatically adjusts the time for Daylight Saving.
"Windows will display a notification to inform you that your system clock has been changed for Daylight Saving Time."
Risk Level: 🟢 Safe | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Alerts you when an application registers itself to run at boot.
Technical Details: Alerts you when an application registers itself to run at boot.
"Windows will notify you whenever software adds itself to your startup list, helping you monitor boot times."