The Windows 8 News app is popping up alerts. How do I make it stop?

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Lately I've noticed that while I'm doing other things on my Windows 8 PC, the Windows 8 News app will pop up an alert in the upper-right corner now and then about a news story.

How do I turn that off?

Kyralessa

Posted 2013-06-23T17:58:09.100

Reputation: 828

Question was closed 2013-07-20T13:32:13.517

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Open the PC Settings menu by hovering/touching in the lower right hand corner or pressing Windows Key + C and selecting the Settings charm, followed by selecting Change PC Settings from the very bottom of the menu.

Then select Notifications from the PC Settings menu. Scroll down the Show notifications from these apps list until you find the News application and slide the selection switch to Off.

mjk

Posted 2013-06-23T17:58:09.100

Reputation: 226

6In Windows 8.1 you need to select Search and apps in the PC settings menu to find the Notifications option. – Paul – 2014-07-16T09:39:34.593

Beautiful! I had no idea that setting was there. Thanks! – Kyralessa – 2013-06-24T06:49:48.963

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