Muting Windows 10 Notification AUDIO ONLY

[Brotuulaan]

Our church computer decided to upgrade to Windows 10 without our consent, and instead of rolling it back, I decided we could just see how it worked with our software we run.

One of the problems that came up almost immediately was that muting the system sounds does not prevent the Notification Center from playing an irritating BLOOP in the middle of a service or event. That got my hackles up, so I decided to investigate the situation.

Unfortunately, there is no setting inside the Notification Center nor the system settings to mute the notifications while allowing them to display on-screen (important to me so I can keep the system updated and such).

While I should have remembered the settings to correct this issue myself, it took me finding an article buried in the interwebz to get hat I wanted: visual display but no audio bloop.

Here is that article, so that all you new 10 users can take advantage of it and have your system set up the way you want it instead of how M$ set it up. You're welcome.

http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-mute-windows-notification-sound-on-windows-10

 

[basroil]

Our church computer decided to upgrade to Windows 10 without our consent, and instead of rolling it back, I decided we could just see how it worked with our software we run.

It doesn't upgrade without consent, since it requires you to sign the eula before the process begins. You gave it consent, usually by carelessness.

One of the problems that came up almost immediately was that muting the system sounds does not prevent the Notification Center from playing an irritating BLOOP in the middle of a service or event. That got my hackles up, so I decided to investigate the situation.

Disabling system sounds will work 100%, I have a dozen computers with this setting on and works flawlessly.

 

[Brotuulaan]

Our pastor had downloaded the package for later install, so that's probably when the EULA was signed. And he just told me that he ended up installing and restarting the computer later that day, so it should have been all done come Sunday morning. The people running the computer that day told me it was running fine then upgraded that day, so somewhere in the mix, there was some bad miscommunication and probably some horrendous observational skills.

But the main point still stands that the sound wasn't functioning in the way I reasoned it should. Have you checked to see whether the notifications are indeed muted along with the other system sounds on your computers? It mutes the other system sounds on this one, such as error tones and the like. But it doesn't include the notification sounds.

And if it is supposed to mute the notifications as well, it doesn't work on this particular computer, so we may just be in that group of users who got this particular issue.

But at least the workaround isn't difficult.

 

[basroil]

Have you checked to see whether the notifications are indeed muted along with the other system sounds on your computers? It mutes the other system sounds on this one, such as error tones and the like. But it doesn't include the notification sounds.

Notifications have no sound in a dozen computers I've upgraded. Just disable all windows sounds if you are having issues (system sounds, not volume), or use quiet hours (and enable the "disable notifications during presentations" option)

 

[Brotuulaan]

I suppose that could work. But I'd still like to see the notifications come up on-screen, as that computer is mostly only used FOR presentations, in which case I might as well turn them all the way off.

But I also found just now that you can go into each of the apps listed in the notifications settings (via action center) and turn off sounds individually for each one. Nowhere near as useful as a master option within those settings, but that gives some alternates for people who are running into this issue and may want different settings.