7 Using Quick Actions
The Action Centre is also home to Quick Action buttons,
which can access and change settings. Click the Action Centre
button in the taskbar and you’ll see the buttons to the lower right
of the screen – you may need to click the Expand link to see all of
the available buttons. The buttons mostly act as toggles, enabling
you to enable and disable Wi-Fi, Flight mode and so on.
8 Customising Quick Action buttons
Focus mode lets you toggle between three settings rather
than just on and off, and All Settings serves as a shortcuts to
Windows 10’s Settings. You can right click most buttons to access
more settings relating to that particular Quick Action, or right
click an empty area and select the Edit option to add or remove
individual buttons as you see fit. Q5
Additional Focus Assist options
You can also use triggers, or rules, to determine which Focus
Assist settings should be used. At the bottom of the Focus Assist
settings, you can use the four toggles to indicate when the
feature should be enabled: when you have a duplicate display
running (perhaps you’re giving a presentation), when you’re
playing a game, or when you have an app in fullscreen mode.
3 Control app notifications
Many – but not all – apps can generate notifications, and
some are more useful than others. Scroll down to Get notifications
from these apps, and you can opt out of notification from certain
apps. You can also click the app name and indicate whether you’d
like to see banners or Action Centre notifications, whether sound
should play, and so on.
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Managing notifications
Notifications will remain in the Action Centre until you clear
them – and you’ll be alerted to this when the Action Centre icon
changes. You can click a notification to be taken to the app that
generated it, or click the ‘x’ at the upper right of a notification to
clear it. You can also opt to clear all the notifications generated by
an app, or even every single notification, in one fell swoop.4 Using Focus Assist
The are times when you don’t want to be pestered by
notifications. This is where Focus Assist helps, and you’ll find a
Focus Assist section in Settings. You can opt to see everything, or
tone things down to limit things to alarms an only see important
notifications and alarms, you deem to be priority – click
Customise your priority list to configure this.Explore
Windows’ notification settings
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