Windows 10 App Notifications

Removing Apps from the notification list in Windows 10 Completely

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Some times you want to clean up the apps that are on the notification list. You can empty the list by removing the DB file wpndatabase.db that is located in:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications

First, you have to stop the two Windows Push Notifications services like this.

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Get-Service -DisplayName  "Windows Push Notification*" | Stop-Service

Better is to rename the file to wpndatabase.db.original so you can go always back to the previous state.

Get-Service -DisplayName  "Windows Push Notification*" | Start-Service

When you restart your computer you start with a clean list.

Only remove one App from the notification list in Windows 10

To remove only one app from the list you have to edit the table HandlerAssets. There is a row with HandlerID that represents a notification item. In the table NotificationHandler, you can find the corresponding number with a description of the program.

With an SQLLite editor, you can view/edit the DB file with the name wpndatabase.db. I used the Navicat for SQLLite.

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