{"id":604,"date":"2016-01-07T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=604"},"modified":"2016-01-08T07:52:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:52:37","slug":"how-to-disable-the-windows-10-notifications-and-icon-in-the-registry","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-disable-the-windows-10-notifications-and-icon-in-the-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Disable the Windows 10 Notifications and Icon in the Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To disable Windows 10 notifications on Windows 8 you can do this by adding the following registry key if it doesn&#8217;t already exist. \u00a0At the same time it is best to also disable Windows Automatic Upgrades.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1<\/h2>\n<p>Open the Windows Registry editor. \u00a0This will vary depending on the version of Windows you are using. \u00a0In this example we are using Windows 8 \/ 8.1. \u00a0This can be done\u00a0as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right click on the bottom left of the screen<\/li>\n<li>Choose Run<\/li>\n<li>Type regedit<\/li>\n<li>Hit Enter<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Step 2<\/h2>\n<p>Create the following key if it doesn&#8217;t already exist<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Gwx<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Step 3<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Create a new REG-DWORD registry value named <strong>DisableGWX<\/strong> and give it a value of <strong>1<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Step 4<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Whilst in the registry editor navigate to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\?WindowsUpdate\\OSUpgrade<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Step 5<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Change the AllowOSUpgrade value to 0. \u00a0If the key doesn&#8217;t exist you will need to create a new DWORD key.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To disable Windows 10 notifications on Windows 8 you can do this by adding the following registry key if it doesn&#8217;t already exist. \u00a0At the same time it is best to also disable Windows Automatic Upgrades. Step 1 Open the Windows Registry editor. \u00a0This will vary depending on the version of Windows you are using. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[36],"article-tag":[480,482,481],"class_list":["post-604","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-8","article-tag-disable-gwx","article-tag-disable-windows-10-icon","article-tag-disable-windows-10-notification"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":5,"sum_votes":21},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}