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Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Woody Leonhard
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
960 pages
24h 50m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Working with the Action/Notification Center

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Misnaming the action center

check Changing settings in the action center

check Understanding the different kinds of notifications

check Discovering what you can do with notifications

If you’ve ever used a moderately sentient phone or tablet, you already know about the notification center. Different devices do it differently, but the general idea is that the phone watches and gathers notifications — little warning messages or status reports — that are sent to you. The phone or tablet gathers all the notifications and puts them in one place, where you can look at them and decide what to do from there.

In Windows 7, notifications just kind of flew by, and there weren’t many of them. In Windows 8 and 8.1, you typically see many more notifications (I’m looking at you, Gmail running in Chrome), but they still fly by. There’s no way in Windows 8 or 8.1 to look at old notifications. After they’re off the screen — frequently for just a few seconds — that’s it. And when they pile up, they can pile up and up and up and up, taking over the ...

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