Open the Start menu and click Settings (the cog icon), then choose System and Notifications & actions to start bringing your various apps into line.

In Windows 7/8, to remove an icon from the notification area, you open Taskbar and Start Menu Properties > Appearance and Personalization > Taskbar and Start Menu.

A “small” number of Windows 11 users will now see “notifications” encouraging them to use other Microsoft products when clicking on the Windows Start Menu.

Microsoft's latest Dev Channel/Fast Ring Windows 10 test build, No. 20161, adds a number of new features which ultimately may or may not make it into Windows 10 21H1.

You still can’t take action on the notifications you receive just yet, but you can at least manage them: anything you dismiss on your Windows PC will also disappear on your Android device ...

This past week revealed many of the new features coming to Windows 9 and if you missed any of the videos, we have combined them all in to one post to get you back up to speed.

Microsoft plans on rolling out ads and notifications in Windows 11's Start menu.

To turn off notifications on a Windows 10 computer, you'll need to open your system's "Notifications and actions settings" menu. Here's how.

Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to use their Microsoft Account. They don't have to. Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Windows 11 has been out now for about two and a half years, but ...

Microsoft is testing a notification in the Start menu that prompts people to back up their files to OneDrive. People are split on if the notification is an ad, and we'd like to know your thoughts.

While we’ve known for some time that Windows 9 will have a pop-up Start menu and the ability to run modern apps in windowed mode, the new screenshots from Computer Base and WinFuture.de give ...