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Every now and then in Windows 10 it keeps grabbing my screen with an OSD telling me about updates with a button that takes me to the update menu in Settings. It's very annoying at times, especially whenever I have an app in full-screen it takes me away from it just to tell me about updates.

I want to disable this screen grabbing OSD notification because it's too obtrusive and simply outright annoying. Would prefer if I can just have it notify me in small popup balloon notification instead so it can be viewed in Message Centre.

I'm fine with some registry tweaks or whatever, either that or just disable update notifications completely. I currently only have it to notify of updates, but not download and install them whenever it chooses.

windows_update_notification_only_toggle.bat

Notification-only subset to block just the annoying notifications and reboot tasks, leaving update function enabled and working.

To undo changes and resume windows update notification, simply run the script again.

windows_update_notification_only_toggle.bat

goto="init" /* %~nx0

:: Batch designed for Windows 10 - compatible with Windows 7

:: v7 final: Disable Update Notification-only with working Windows Update, Store and Defender protection updates

::----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:about

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call :check_status

if "%STATUS%"=="DISABLED" ( color 0c ) else color 0b

echo.

echo      ---------------------------------------------------------------------

echo     :            Windows Update Notification-only Toggle v7.0             :

echo     :---------------------------------------------------------------------:

echo     :           Just run this script again to enable or disable           :

echo     :                                                                     :

echo     :               Update Notification currently %STATUS%                :

echo     :                                                                     :

echo     : Press Alt+F4 to cancel                    Always run latest version :

echo      ---------------------------------------------------------------------

echo       A subset of windows_update_toggle.bat https://pastebin.com/gNsLEWJe

echo.

exit/b

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:main [ Batch main function ]

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set "exe=" & title Windows Update Notification Toggle & color 07 & call :about 0b & timeout /t 10

:: notification blocking

set "exe=%exe% MusNotification MusNotifyIcon"                       || TasksMicrosoftWindowsUpdateOrchestrator       ESSENTIAL!  

set "exe=%exe% UpdateNotificationMgr UNPUXLauncher UNPUXHost"       || TasksMicrosoftWindowsUNP

set "exe=%exe% Windows10UpgraderApp DWTRIG20 DW20 GWX"              || Windows10Upgrade

:: error reporting blocking

set "exe=%exe% wermgr WerFault WerFaultSecure DWWIN"                || TasksMicrosoftWindowsWindows Error Reporting

:: diag - optional blocking of diagnostics / telemetry

rem set "exe=%exe% compattelrunner"                                 || TasksMicrosoftWindowsApplication Experience

rem set "exe=%exe% dstokenclean appidtel"                           || TasksMicrosoftWindowsApplicationData

rem set "exe=%exe% wsqmcons"                                        || TasksMicrosoftWindowsCustomer Experience Improvement Prg

rem set "exe=%exe% dusmtask"                                        || TasksMicrosoftWindowsDUSM

rem set "exe=%exe% dmclient"                                        || TasksMicrosoftWindowsFeedbackSiuf

rem set "exe=%exe% DataUsageLiveTileTask"                           || Tasks{SID}DataSenseLiveTileTask

rem set "exe=%exe% DiagnosticsHub.StandardCollector.Service"        || System32DiagSvcs

rem set "exe=%exe% HxTsr"                                           || WindowsAppsmicrosoft.windowscommunicationsapps

:: other - optional blocking of other tools

rem set "exe=%exe% PilotshubApp"                                    || Program FilesWindowsAppsMicrosoft.WindowsFeedbackHub_

rem set "exe=%exe% SpeechModelDownload SpeechRuntime"               || TasksMicrosoftWindowsSpeech                  Recommended

rem set "exe=%exe% LocationNotificationWindows WindowsActionDialog" || TasksMicrosoftWindowsLocation

rem set "exe=%exe% DFDWiz disksnapshot"                             || TasksMicrosoftWindowsDiskFootprint

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:: all_entries - used to cleanup orphaned / commented entries between script versions

set e1=TiWorker UsoClient wuauclt wusa WaaSMedic SIHClient WindowsUpdateBox GetCurrentRollback WinREBootApp64 WinREBootApp32

set e2=MusNotification MusNotifyIcon UpdateNotificationMgr UNPUXLauncher UNPUXHost Windows10UpgraderApp DWTRIG20 DW20 GWX wuapihost

set e3=wermgr WerFault WerFaultSecure DWWIN compattelrunner dstokenclean appidtel wsqmcons dusmtask dmclient DataUsageLiveTileTask

set e4=DiagnosticsHub.StandardCollector.Service HxTsr PilotshubApp SpeechModelDownload SpeechRuntime LocationNotificationWindows

set e5=WindowsActionDialog DFDWiz disksnapshot TrustedInstaller

set old_entries=RAServer ClipUp Dism ShellServiceHost backgroundTaskHost

set all_entries=%e1% %e2% %e3% %e4% %e5%

:: Cleanup orphaned / commented items between script versions

echo.

for %%C in (%old_entries%) do call :cleanup_orphaned %%C silent

for %%C in (%all_entries%) do call :cleanup_orphaned %%C

echo.

:: Toggle execution via IFEO

set/a "bl=0" & set/a "unbl=0" & set "REGISTRY_MISMATCH=echo [REGISTRY MISMATCH CORRECTED] & echo."

for %%a in (%exe%) do call :ToggleExecution "%ifeo%%%a.exe"

if %bl% gtr 0 if %unbl% gtr 0 %REGISTRY_MISMATCH% & for %%a in (%exe%) do call :ToggleExecution "%ifeo%%%a.exe" forced

echo.



:: Done!

echo ---------------------------------------------------------------------

if "%STATUS%"=="DISABLED" ( color 0b &echo  Update Notification now ENABLED! ) else color 0c &echo  Update Notification now DISABLED

echo ---------------------------------------------------------------------

echo.

pause

exit



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:: Utility functions

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:check_status

set "ifeo=HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution Options" & set "OK="

reg query "%ifeo%MusNotification.exe" /v Debugger 1>nul 2>nul && set "STATUS=DISABLED" || set "STATUS=ENABLED!"

exit/b



:cleanup_orphaned %1:[entry to check, used internally] %2:[anytext=silent]

call set "orphaned=%%exe:%1=%%" & set "okey="%ifeo%%1.exe""

if /i "%orphaned%"=="%exe%" reg delete %okey% /v "Debugger" /f >nul 2>nul & if /i ".%2"=="." echo %1 not selected.. 

exit/b



:ToggleExecution %1:[regpath] %2:[optional "forced"]

set "dummy=%windir%System32systray.exe" & rem allow dummy process creation to limit errors

if "%STATUS%_%2"=="DISABLED_forced" reg delete "%~1" /v "Debugger" /f >nul 2>nul & exit/b

if "%STATUS%_%2"=="ENABLED!_forced" reg add "%~1" /v Debugger /d "%dummy%" /f >nul 2>nul & exit/b

reg query "%~1" /v Debugger 1>nul 2>nul && set "isBlocked=1" || set "isBlocked="

if defined isBlocked reg delete "%~1" /v "Debugger" /f >nul 2>nul & set/a "unbl+=1" & echo %~n1 un-blocked! & exit/b 

reg add "%~1" /v Debugger /d "%dummy%" /f >nul 2>nul & set/a "bl+=1" & echo %~n1 blocked! & taskkill /IM %~n1 /t /f >nul 2>nul

exit/b



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:"init" [ Batch entry function ]

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@echo off & cls & setlocal & if "%1"=="init" shift &shift & goto :main &rem Admin self-restart flag found, jump to main

reg query "HKEY_USERSS-1-5-20Environment" /v temp 1>nul 2>nul && goto :main || call :about 0c & echo  Requesting admin rights..

call cscript /nologo /e:JScript "%~f0" get_rights "%1" & exit

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*/ // [ JScript functions ] all batch lines above are treated as a /* js comment */ in cscript

function get_rights(fn) { var console_init_shift='/c start "init" "'+fn+'"'+' init '+fn+' '+WSH.Arguments(1);

  WSH.CreateObject("Shell.Application").ShellExecute('cmd.exe',console_init_shift,"","runas",1); }

if (WSH.Arguments.length>=1 && WSH.Arguments(0)=="get_rights") get_rights(WSH.ScriptFullName);

//

Go to Settings and select System. On the left click on Notifications & actions.

Scroll down to the bottom of the window and click on Windows Update (should be the last one) to see other options.

Here you can disable the Windows Update notification banners. In this way notifications will only be visible in the Action Center.