Policy
Turn off toast notifications
Microsoft Windows
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016
This policy setting turns off toast notifications for applications. If you enable this policy setting, applications will not be able to raise toast notifications. Note that this policy does not affect taskbar notification balloons. Note that Windows system features are not affected by this policy. You must enable/disable system features individually to stop their ability to raise toast notifications. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, toast notifications are enabled and can be turned off by the administrator or user. No reboots or service restarts are required for this policy setting to take effect.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Path SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications Value name NoToastApplicationNotification | REG_DWORD | HKLM 1 HKCU 1 | HKLM 0 HKCU 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.