How to customize Windows 10's Action Center
Quick actions might be the most useful feature of the Action Center: Thanks to quick actions, you can quickly and easily adjust your screen brightness, turn Wi-Fi on or off, switch on Quiet Hours (Windows 10's notification-silencing feature), and more. You can collapse this pane, and when you do, only four quick actions will be visible, but you can choose which four appear here.
Open the Settings app, click System, and then Notifications & actions. Under the Quick actions heading, you'll notice four boxes, each representing one of the four actions that remain visible at all times. Click the boxes to get a menu that lets you pick and choose which actions will get one of the coveted four slots.
Toggle notification options
Under the Notifications subheading on the same Settings page, you'll find a handful of general options that you can toggle on and off:
Silence overzealous apps
Would you rather not get an alert every. single. time. you get an email message You'll be happy to know that you can switch off notifications on a per-app basis. While at Settings > System > Notifications & actions, scroll down to the "Show notifications from these apps" subheading.
To silence all notifications from a particular app, toggle the switch for that app to the "off" position. If you would like to receive some kinds of notifications from an app--for example, you're cool with the notification banners but would rather not have an alert sound play--click the name of the app in question. Next, toggle the settings on the resulting screen as you please. You can disable or enable notification banners and sounds, or decide, "I don't want any notifications for you, thank you very much." It's your call.
Some apps, such as Twitter's Windows app, offer more granular options over what sort of actions generate a notification. Poke around in the settings of the apps you use to see if
Clear out notifications
After a while, you might accumulate quite the collection of notifications in your PC's Action Center. Clearing them out is a cinch, though.
Open Action Center by clicking the Action Center icon in the system tray--it resembles a speech bubble. From here, you can delete individual notifications, clear out an entire section, or clear the whole thing.
To delete individual notifications, mouse over the notification you want to get rid of, and click the "X" button that appears. If you would like to clear out an entire section, mouse over the section heading, then click the "X" button.
Finally, if you want to delete all notifications, click Clear all in the upper right corner of the Action Center pane.