Policy

Disable showing balloon notifications as toasts.

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryStart Menu and Taskbar
Supported onAt 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

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Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\EnableLegacyBalloonNotificationsREG_DWORD
1
0

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