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The settings for the notification area in Windows 7 have three options:

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• Windows 7 Updates Download
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• Show icon and notifications
• Hide icon and notifications
• Only show notifications

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Well here is my problem. I have a misbehaving application that doesn't have any settings to turn off notifications. And it keeps nagging me to update itself even though I know that the next version is not running properly. I do not want to see the reminder notification popup at all. But after all the application have some useful options that I use daily to perform tasks. These are accessible from the notification area/system tray.

I would like to silence the application by setting the option to something like:

• Only show icon

or

• Show icon and hide notifications

Otherwise I am forced to use the option 'Hide icon and notifications' which makes me have to use at least one more mouse click every time I use the application.

A small problem in the great scheme of things.. but very annoying (to me at least).

Is there any way to make the notification area behave like this?

bwDracoAndersAnders

6 Answers

As mentioned elsewhere, this is not how the Notification area is designed to operate. Notifications are its raison d'être, so being able to turn them off would be counter to the design goals of the system.

What it seems you really want to do is use it to open the program and don't care about notifications. For an equivalent solution, I would try something like this:

1. Hide the icon (and subsequently, the notifications) by dragging it into the notification area's pop-up box (or through your method, which you seem to prefer).
2. Create a folder somewhere containing only a shortcut to this program, pointing directly to its executable.
3. Right-click the taskbar, choose toolbars, and click 'New toolbar..'. Then navigate to the newly created folder and, without opening it, highlight it and click 'Select Folder'.
4. If you desire, unlock the taskbar and move/resize the new toolbar so that it is wherever you find it most useful.

This should work. I don't know the particular program you are struggling with, but those that I use often will not launch a new instance using this method, but open the existing instance. I believe that the program would have to instruct Windows specifically to not do this, though what mechanism that utilizes and whether this is true at all, is something I am not intimately familiar with.

Ben RichardsBen Richards

Separate answer for a completely different tactic: you can disable balloon notifications for all notification area icons using local Group Policy. As HowToGeek explains,

1. Open gpedit.msc
2. 'On the left side navigate to User Configuration Administrative Templates Start Menu and Taskbar'
3. 'On the left side under Settings scroll down to “Turn off all balloon notifications” and double click.'

I would not recommend this, as Windows occasionally uses these balloons for useful messages (your hard disk is failing, your battery is about to run out, etc.Satanic symbols on iphone. ) — disabling the updates for your particular program is a much cleaner solution.

You haven't told us which program (or even what kind of program it is!), so your mileage may vary, but how about:

• Close the application
• Install and run the Fiddler web debugging proxy
• Launch the application
• Observe the hostname it contacts to check for an available update
• Block that hostname using an entry in the hosts file (very few all-inclusive tutorials for Windows 7, but I found one that looks mostly complete)
• Hope that the application doesn't bug out if it can't reach the update server, and fails silently instead (this should be the case for almost all non-internet applications)
• Enjoy life without update notifications until you remove the line you added to the hosts file!

If your application 'helpfully' remembers the presence of an update from the last time it was able to contact the update server, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the old version with the hosts file blocking in place to prevent it seeing the new download.

This is not possible in the current Windows design. The notification bar was specifically designed to show notifications - the status quo of applications installing themselves here to show that they are still alive is the incorrect behaviour (they should be in the taskbar, not the notification bar).

But then it seems we're asking the wrong question. Why would you possibly want to not update? Updates can be protecting you from security vulnerabilities that could be used to compromise your machine. If it's your home machine they'll take your credit card details, and if it's your company one they'll take your company's IPR or your customer's credit card details (remember: 2 in 3 SMEs that get hacked go out of business within a year).

It seems to me that the best way to stop the application nagging you to update is probably to update the application.

i would go with the 'Hide icon and notifications' option, and eliminate that extra mouse click by adding a shortcut to launch the program, right click the program's shortcut and add some key combination

If you stated the name of the program someone might have been able to tell you exactly how to achieve this. As it is, all anyone can do is speculate.

I would focus my efforts into disabling update notifications in the application itself. Every application I have seen with an updater has this option.

This is where I would start as it would offer the most elegant solution.

Austin 'Danger' PowersAustin 'Danger' Powers

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Microsoft is trying desperately to convince the users to upgrade their Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs to the next iteration to Windows i.e. Windows 10. Earlier Microsoft decided to give away Windows 10 as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1 users. To advertise its “Best Windows Yet”, Microsoft has pushed an update to PCs that are popping-up Windows 10 upgrade icons in your PC to remind you of the upgrade date.

Some Windows users are not getting the Windows 10 upgrade icon due to various reasons. Take a look below to know how to get Windows 10 upgrade icon in your PC:

How to get Windows 10 upgrade icon if missing:

Method 1:

• Open Notepad
• Copy the following text and paste it into Notepad:

REG QUERY “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionAppCompatFlagsUpgradeExperienceIndicators” /v UpgEx findstr UpgEx
if “%errorlevel%” “0” GOTO RunGWX
reg add “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionAppCompatFlagsAppraiser” /v UtcOnetimeSend /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
schtasks /run /TN “MicrosoftWindowsApplication ExperienceMicrosoft Compatibility Appraiser”
:CompatCheckRunning
schtasks /query /TN “MicrosoftWindowsApplication ExperienceMicrosoft Compatibility Appraiser”
schtasks /query /TN “MicrosoftWindowsApplication ExperienceMicrosoft Compatibility Appraiser” findstr Ready
if NOT “%errorlevel%” “0” ping localhost >nul &goto :CompatCheckRunning:RunGWX
schtasks /run /TN “MicrosoftWindowsSetupgwxrefreshgwxconfig”

To get Windows 10 upgrade icon, now perform the following steps:

1. Click File, and then Save As
2. In the File name box, change the file name to ReserveWin10.cmd
3. Click the dropdown next to Save as type, and select All files (*.*)
4. Choose the folder you would like to save the file to. For this example, let’s choose to save the file to theC:/Temp folder. Then click Save.
5. From the Start screen or Start menu, type Command Prompt in the search box, and then in the list of results, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator.
6. Now, the file from the location you saved to in Step 6. In this example, you would type the following in the Command Prompt window and hit Enter:C:/Temp/ReserveWin10.cmd

This can take 10 – 30 minutes to run, during which the script will continuously provide status reports that it is running. Please be patient.

If the script is failing in an infinite loop, then you don’t have the necessary prerequisite Windows Updates. Besides requiring Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 Update, you must also have installed:

For Windows 7 SP1:
KB3035583
KB2952664

For Windows 8.1 Update:
KB3035583
KB2976978

You can manually check if you have these updates within your elevated command prompt by typing the command:

dism /online /get-packages findstr 3035583

(Replace the KB number with whichever update you are looking for.) If you have the update installed, this command will show the package identity. For example, Windows 8.1 users should see this:

C:>dism /online /get-packages findstr 3035583

Package Identity : Package_for_KB3035583~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.1.29

If this method doesn’t work, try the following unofficial method (doing the above process with a tool).

Method 2 to get Windows 10 missing upgrade icon:

Windows 7 Updates Download

Step 1:
In order to get the Windows 10 upgrade icon first you need to download the Step 2:
Now unzip the Window batch file named win10fix_full to some convenient place.

Step 3:
Now right click on the batch file and select Run as administrator and then click Yes.

Step 4:
You will see some instructions there, press any key to continue and then again press any key to reach to Main Menu.

Step 5:
Here you will be seeing five options, press 1 to check whether your system is ready for the update or you are missing anything. If so, first run Windows Update in your system.

Step 6:
Once your system is up to date, you will have three options to choose to get the Windows 10 upgrade icon. I tried 1^st and 2^nd method for my windows 8.1 and it worked.

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Note:

• We have checked the batch files and they are safe to use. However for your own satisfaction take a backup of your system.
• There might be possible that you won’t be seeing Windows 10 updateicon even after trying all three options. You need not to worry about that – you’ll be getting Windows 10 upgrade manually on time even without the upgrade icon.

Source: Microsoft Forum

Do you see Windows 10 upgrade icon on your PC by following these steps? Tell us in comments below.

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