Old pop-up notifications in Windows 10

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Windows 10 pop-up notifications are terrible and slow. Is there a way to replace them with old Windows 7/8 notifications? I'm pretty sure it's possible since I did pretty much the same thing for sound mixer.

Windows 10 notification:

Windows 10 notification

Windows 8 notification:

Windows 8 notification

Roman

Posted 2016-05-25T03:11:17.623

Reputation: 123

Answers

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Winaero posted a hack to enable the old Balloon Tips again:

  1. Open Registry Editor.
  2. Go to the following Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
  3. Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named EnableLegacyBalloonNotifications and set its value data to 1.

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  1. restart the PC.

Now you should have the old popups again.

That the Ballon Tipps is show in the left side is a bug, which is fixed since Build 10586.420 (KB3163018). Here is the changelog:

Fixed an issue that was causing balloon tip notifications to always appear on the upper left side of the screen.

To get the update just check for Windows updates in the settings app.

magicandre1981

Posted 2016-05-25T03:11:17.623

Reputation: 86 560

Thanks. But unfortunately a problem occurred, balloon tips now appear in the left upper corner of the screen. – Roman – 2016-05-25T04:59:29.397

post a picture of the issue. I haven't tried this setting – magicandre1981 – 2016-05-25T15:58:11.740

Here's what happens with notifications from Last.fm Scrobbler http://i.imgur.com/M0IeHiC.jpg And seems like Telegram has Win10 style pop-ups, although I'm not sure, maybe it's Telegram style pop-ups http://i.imgur.com/UQyC5lz.jpg

– Roman – 2016-05-25T17:42:53.277

if software alls the toasts o it's own, it can't be converted. Only software that used BallonTipps which were converted to the Toast notificatons show again as the old one. I have no idea why it is on the left. – magicandre1981 – 2016-05-26T04:15:31.337

@Rooxie this is a bug, which is now fixed by Microsoft. try this new update or wait for the next patchday to get it – magicandre1981 – 2016-06-03T17:34:06.530

@Rooxie KB3163018 is now out as offical update. Now your issue should be fixed that ballon tipps appear on the left side – magicandre1981 – 2016-06-15T04:31:43.077

@Rooxie have you tried the new update? Is the bollon tipp now shown correctly? – magicandre1981 – 2016-06-16T15:06:00.380

It's ok now. I re-installed Windows and then updated it, though. – Roman – 2016-06-16T18:19:41.340

nice to hear this – magicandre1981 – 2016-06-17T04:21:00.887

if the update works, mark the reply (green check mark) as answer to "close" the question – magicandre1981 – 2016-06-19T07:59:04.573