Notifications on Windows may fail to appear for a few different reasons.
If they aren’t appearing when they should, it’s mostly due to misconfigured settings on your Windows. Notifications may be disabled either for the entire system or for specific applications. In such a case,check Windows notification settings or app-specific settings.
Some users have encountered this issue following a Windows update. To fix this,uninstall the recently installed Windows updates.
In the worst case, if the notifications stop appearing completely and the Action Center does not work as expected, you may be dealing with missing or corrupted system files. For that, you’ll need torepair the corrupted Windows files.
That said, let’s find out how you may fix the issue on your system.
Check Notifications Settings
First, ensure your Windows notification settings are as they should be before you try fixing problems.
If a specific program isn’t notifying you,check the notification settings within that program itself. It’s possible the program isn’t sending messages to Windows because you have notifications muted or blocked.
Turn Off Focus Assist
Many productivity apps block notifications to help you focus. Windows has something with this feature built in as well. ensure Focus Assist and any similar programs are turned off before you continue troubleshooting.
If you’re using a different program to block notifications, close that program before proceeding.
Allow Apps to Run in the Background
When programs can’t run in the background, they’re prevented from pushing notifications to Windows. This means you won’t be able to get the notifications you want.
Keep these settings as long as you want to use the Windows notifications feature.
Re-register Action Center
If you are experiencing issues receiving the notification banners, try reregistering Action center using Windows PowerShell.
Rollback Updates or Update Windows
In the past, Windows notification problem is related to your Windows update. So, you may try uninstalling the recently installed Windows update and check if it fixes the issue.
If that fixed the problem, it might be solved for good—especially if it came from an error in the update. Else, wait for the newWindows update.
Restart Explorer
Sometimes one of the major Windows processes fails and needs restarting. Your UI will probably disappear if you do it correctly, but it will come back onceexplorer.exestarts again.
Now, clickFileat the top of theTask Managerwindow and chooseRun New Task. Then, typeexplorer.exeand Press Enter.
Check to see whether notifications are working now.
If a problem with that process was preventing notifications from appearing, it should be working now. However, the problem might reoccur and signal an issue with your system.
Repair System Files
Sometimes, the notification problem can arise in your Windows if the system file is corrupted. you may try runningDISMandSFC commandsthat check the system files to see whether everything is as it should be. It can findmissing or corrupt filesand even replace or repair them in some cases.
If all fails, a more straightforward solution is toback up your filesand restore or reinstall Windows completely. Once everything is returned to default and all the proper files are in place, the notifications may begin working again.
Lastly, here are our other helpful guides if the notifications for yourspecific appsare still not working.
