is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is rolling out a taskbar notification system to its Windows 11 widgets ...

Microsoft is rolling out notifications for its Weather, Finance, Sports and Breaking News alert widgets in Windows 11 starting this week. Windows 11 users will see these as live animations to their ...

To turn on Visual effects for sound using Control Panel: Open Control Panel Open Ease of Access Center Locate Use text or visual alternatives for sounds Select Turn on visual notifications for sounds ...

On July 1, Microsoft made available to testers in the Dev Channel (formerly known as Fast Ring) a new test build of Windows 10. That test build, No. 20161, includes a number of notable features, plus ...

Facebook is working on its next Windows 11 widget, and this one is trying to get you to open up — you guessed it — Facebook. In a blog post, Microsoft announced Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23451.

When you decide to continue an Xbox gaming session on a Windows PC, you’ll see a barrage of pop-up notifications. These notifications represent your Xbox achievements. While occasional updates on it ...

When it comes to minimizing distractions during the day, we usually think of smartphone notifications: Those pings and buzzes that pull us out of whatever we were doing and demand we turn our ...

How to enable old-style Outlook notifications in Windows 10 Your email has been sent There is a way to change back to old-style Outlook notifications, but it's convoluted because Microsoft hid it so ...