- [Instructor] Notifications are little alerts
that will pop up on your screen from time to time,
giving you important information
from some of your applications,
like this one.
This is called a banner notification,
and it's reminding me of an appointment on my calendar.
Now, if you just click somewhere
on the body of the notification,
it will open the related program
and show you the relevant information.
So I could click on this
to go to that appointment in my calendar.
If you click the Dismiss button,
the notification will go away.
And this button up at the top with three dots
will open up a menu.
If you never want to see another notification
from this specific application,
you could click this option here.
And there's also a shortcut to go into Settings
to manage how notifications work
for this specific application.
This is just a shortcut to some settings
that we'll see in just a moment.
And if you click the X up here in the top right,
it will look like that notification goes away,
but it's just been moved to the Notification Center.
And you can open that by clicking all the way down here
in the bottom right corner on the clock,
and that opens the Notification Center.
And any notification that you have not clicked on or cleared
will be listed here.
There's also a calendar down here,
but we're going to focus on the notifications.
So I see a notification for my calendar,
the same notification we just saw.
And I also see a notification for an email I've received.
Now, of course, we saw the banner for this notification
pop up on the screen,
but sometimes the banner does not pop up,
but the notification just appears here
in the Notification Center.
Some will make a sound and some won't.
There are variables,
but you are able to control
what type of notification you receive for each application.
Now, of course, you could click on this button
with three dots to open the menu
and use this shortcut to go to Settings.
But I want you to understand where that takes you.
So the normal way to get to those settings,
what of course be to go to Windows Settings.
So we'll go to the Start menu, to Settings.
On the left we want to make sure
we're in the System category.
Then we'll go to Notifications.
Now, first at the top, there is a master switch.
So you can turn all notifications on or off system-wide.
And if you click the arrow next to that,
you've got a few more options.
So if you do want notifications on so that you see them,
but you want to globally disable all notification sounds,
you can do that right here,
but most people leave these options on and then scroll down
where you can enable or disable notifications individually
for each application.
You can just turn that switch on or off for each one
or for more control,
you can click on one of these applications.
So if I click on Calendar, for example,
I could set what type of notification
displays for the calendar.
So the banner is that actual pop-up message we saw earlier.
So you could disable banners,
but still set it so that the notification appears
in the Notification Center,
or maybe you do want the banner to appear,
but you don't want a sound to play.
So you can control all of that here.
And when you're finished,
you can click Notifications up here at the top
to take a step back
and you could click on one of the other applications
and adjust the settings for that.
Now, finally, you should be aware of one more,
very important variable.
I want you to notice for the Mail application,
both banners and sounds are turned on,
but some programs have notification settings
inside of that program's own settings.
And if notifications are turned off there,
then this setting here in Windows Settings
will not help you.
So let's go to the Mail application.
I'll go to the Start menu to the list of all applications
and I'll launch Mail from here.
In the Mail application,
I'll click the gear at the bottom to open Settings.
Then I'll go to Notifications.
Now I have two email accounts linked to my computer.
If this apply to all accounts option is turned on
any change I make will be applied to all of my accounts.
I could turn that off and then select accounts individually
and change the settings,
but I'm going to leave that on.
So any change I make will be applied to all of my accounts.
So if you want to see banners for Mail,
you need to have that enabled
back in Windows Notification Settings,
and also here in Mail's own settings.
Same thing, if you want sounds for that notification,
or if you want the notification to appear
in the Notification Center.
Now it's labeled as Action Center here,
but it's the same thing.
So you can see there are a few variables,
but that should give you the tools
you need to get your notifications set up
how you want them for each application.