How to "Clear All" Windows 10 Action Center notifications with keyboard

In Windows 10 desktop, is there way to "Clear All" of the Action Center notifications with the keyboard?

I know WinA will open the Action Center. But I haven't found a shortcut to dismiss the notifications.

Drew S

Posted 2016-09-16T17:01:25.280

Reputation: 335

Can you not navigate around with arrow keys and Enter to select desired option(s) after using Win A? – adampski – 2016-09-16T17:07:56.143

That doesn't seem to be working either @Homey_D_Clown_IT – Drew S – 2016-09-19T13:59:25.323

Answers

Try:

WinKey + A (to open Action Center)

Shift + Tab + Tab (to set focus on "clear all")

Space

The above keystrokes can be automated using NirCmd or AHK easily.

w32sh

Posted 2016-09-16T17:01:25.280

Reputation: 8 611

1I may have spoke too soon. It works, but it's not ideal. Apparently shift+tab doesn't work, so you have to Tab about 7 times to get to "Clear All" :( – Drew S – 2016-09-16T20:23:07.337

9A keyboard sequence this is. A keyboard shortcut? Seems like a bit of a longcut to me. Sadly, this may be the best that Redmond is offering us. :-( – Edward Brey – 2016-11-11T02:28:19.517

3The first Shift+Tab only focuses the settings tiles within the Action Center for me; a second press focuses the Clear All button. – Robert K. Bell – 2018-09-28T00:35:06.267

For some reason, when doing that manually the solution of WinKey-A, Shift-Tab and Space, always works... but it doesn't when doing it from AutoIt.

This little script for AutoIt will either:

a) If there are any notifications, it will clear them all

b) If there aren't, it will expand or contract the buttons (Tablet, config, etc...) from below.

    Send("#a")
    Sleep(100)
    Send("{ENTER}")
    Send("{ESC}")

Pablo Navarro

Posted 2016-09-16T17:01:25.280

Reputation: 1

Odd. I couldn't get Shift+Tab to work manually. I'm on Win 10 Home 64 bit. – Drew S – 2016-12-20T21:56:28.377

@Drew S Seems an unrelated issue, as shift added to a navigation key generally reverses the action. This is standard across windows, chrome, Linux desktops, etc. If the key combination isn't working I would look towards my keyboard or something such as filter keys in the OS affecting the input. – shenk – 2019-05-03T02:59:02.160

Try:

WinKey + A to open Action Center
WinKey + A again to close it

At this point notifications are cleared out

Konstantin Babiy

Posted 2016-09-16T17:01:25.280

Reputation: 1

NO, it's not be cleared, it still there, just highlight of notification icon was cleared from having notifications -> blank state – Natta Wang – 2019-11-12T02:53:59.710