Disable showing balloon notifications as toasts.
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Policy overview

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User
Category
Start Menu and Taskbar
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

This policy disables the functionality that converts balloons to toast notifications. If you enable this policy setting, system and application notifications will render as balloons instead of toast notifications. Enable this policy setting if a specific app or system component that uses balloon notifications has compatibility issues with toast notifications. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, all notifications will appear as toast notifications. A reboot is required for this policy setting to take effect.

Internal name
EnableLegacyBalloonNotifications
Policy ID
eafaaef44b61
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
EnableLegacyBalloonNotifications
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
EnableLegacyBalloonNotifications
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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