Toast Notification Filter (Industry 8.1)

7/8/2014

Learn how to enable, disable, and configure Toast Notification Filter on your Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry (Industry 8.1) device.

You can use Toast Notification Filter to prevent system toast notifications from displaying in Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry (Industry 8.1).

Turn Toast Notification Filter on or off

By default, Toast Notification Filter is not turned on. You can turn Toast Notification Filter on or off for your Industry 8.1 device by using the following steps:

To turn Toast Notification Filter on or off by using Control Panel

  1. In Control Panel, click Programs and Features.

  2. On the Programs and Features window, click Turn Windows features on or off.

  3. In the Windows Features window, expand the Embedded Features node, and check or clear the checkbox for Toast Notification Filter.

To turn Toast Notification Filter on or off by using DISM

  1. Open a command prompt with administrator rights.

  2. At the command prompt, type the following command to turn on Toast Notification Filter:

    Dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:ISKU-ToastNotificationFilter
    

    -or-

    Type the following command to turn off Toast Notification Filter:

    Dism /online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:ISKU-ToastNotificationFilter
    

After you turn on Toast Notification Filter, you must then enable Toast Notification Filter.

Turning on Toast Notification Filter does not require a device restart.

Enable or disable Toast Notification Filter

By default, Toast Notification Filter is not enabled. You can enable or disable Toast Notification Filter by setting the FilterEnabled property in the WMI class TF_Settings. If you enable or disable Toast Notification Filter, the changes do not affect any sessions that are currently signed in; you must sign out and sign back in.

Toast Notification Filter does not filter system toast notifications on accounts with administrator rights.

Block app toast notifications

Toast Notification Filter does not block app toast notifications. To block app toast notifications, you can turn off app notifications in PC Settings under the Notifications tab, or you can configure Group Policy to turn off app toast notifications under User Configuration > Administrative Template > Start Menu and Task Bar > Notifications.

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