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It’s Xbox game notifications. Try this?
How to turn off Windows 10 Xbox Game Bar notifications
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
I used O&O AppBuster to remove everything related to Xbox.
Windows Key + G returns the following dialog box:
Must I reinstall the Xbox Game Bar to disable the tips?
Surely there is a registry setting I can change. (And don’t call me Shirley.)
I would give it a day and see if it pops again.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
This might be related to comments in today’s 31-Aug-2023 ghacks.net article In Windows 11, the line between legitimate and adware becomes increasingly blurred, which states in part:
“… This particular campaign, however, does not use the regular notification system of the operating system. Microsoft is using the digitally signed program BGAUpsell.EXE for the campaign, which it places in the directory C:\Windows\Temp\MUBSTemp\.
In Tom Warren’s case, Microsoft displayed the popup while a fullscreen game was being played. While that may be a bug, everything else concerning the popup is intentional …
… Microsoft informed The Verge that it has paused the campaign to address “unintended behavior”. Pausing indicates that Microsoft has every intention to continue the campaign at a later stage.”
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Dell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3324 * Firefox v117.0.0 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23070.1004-1.1.23080.1005 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.1.280-1.0.2117 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7279
It happened again today, and this time it has nothing to do with video games:
I see this intrusion as something sinister.
Go BACK to your Notifications settings area, but this time scroll down the page a bit below where your screenshot was cut off in your initial post.
Now, you should see a title that says “Get notifications from these senders”. Under this title, look for an entry titled “Suggestions”. If it’s there, simply click on the slider to turn the notifications off. This should rid you of these notifications…unless MS decides in their infinite wisdom to turn them back on in a future update.
I also had this behavior happen on one of my machines, and the above procedure worked to get rid of them after the first one several days ago, about the same time of your initial post in this thread.
By the way, you may find some other apps/items listed in that “Get notifications…” area besides Suggestions. Tread lightly turning other things off, because you could then not get notifications from Windows components that you may actually expect to see or need to see.
I do not have an entry titled “Suggestions” in my settings.
Hi WUBRINY:
No, but according to your image in post # 2585583 you have a sender named “Suggested” at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions (which I believe you’ve now disabled with all your other senders) …
… that appears to be responsible for your unwanted notifications as shown in your image in post # 2585215.
If you disable this single “Suggested” sender at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions and leave your other senders enabled does this stop your unwanted notifications nagging you to install suggested apps?
… Further to Bob99’s suggestion and your image in post # 2585586, my Win 10 Pro v22H2 OS laptop is not joined to a domain and it does not have a sender named “Suggested” (or “Suggestions”) at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions…
The fact that my Win 10 Pro v22H2 OS doesn’t have this “Suggested” sender makes me suspect that it’s an experimental feature and that you’ve (unfortunately) been randomly selected for beta testing.
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Dell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3324 * Firefox v117.0.0 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23080.2006-1.1.23080.2005 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.1.280-1.0.2117 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7279
Kind of a long list. All the sliders are grayed-out, presumably because I turned notifications off at the top. I guess I could turn notifications back on, move all the sliders to off, and then turn notifications off at the top again. These settings have never given me trouble before, but you never know what is going on under the hood.
I shouldn’t have to do this, but let’s see what happens:
… These unwanted suggestions began to appear after the July 2023 updates. I’ve tried O&O ShutUp without success…
Hi WUBRINY:
I don’t know if it’s relevant, but further to the image in your original post # 2584472, I have a Win 10 Pro v22H2 OS and noticed that I have an additional checkbox labelled “Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows” at Settings | System | Notification & Actions that you don’t seem to have. I don’t think this checkbox actually controls the type of pop-ups you’re seeing (see Mayank Parmar’s 07-Jun-2020 Windows Latest article Windows 10 is Nagging Users with Full-screen Setup Prompts about this check box) but that missing check box could indicate that your Notifications settings and/or associated registry keys are corrupted.
If you haven’t already done so you might want to run System File Checker (sfc /scannow) and DISM commands like Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth from an elevated command prompt as instructed in the ghacks.net article Use DISM to Fix Issues SFC Can’t just in case your July 2023 updates corrupted some Windows system files.
I don’t see these suggestions from Microsoft popping up on my screen, but that might be because I’ve wiped the last traces of several unwanted apps like XBox Game Bar and LinkedIn from my system [see my 27-Apr-2023 topic Can’t Remove Remnants of Some Old UWP (Microsoft Store) Apps]. I also don’t use any third-party apps like O&O Shutup++ to manage my Windows settings, so if you do use one of these Windows configuration managers make sure you only use latest available version to ensure compatibility with your current OS.
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Dell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3324 * Firefox v117.0.0 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23080.2006-1.1.23080.2005 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.1.280-1.0.2117 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7279
Ran SFC /scannow and DISM with negative results.
New one today:
I also don’t use any third-party apps like O&O Shutup++ to manage my Windows settings …
I gave up trying to track down all the individual settings in Win10 long ago. I simply don’t have time to track down every setting, research the obscure name, and determine whether to enable or disable it. I let O&O Shutup do the work for me. If that results in some leakage, so be it. But I do not think my notification settings are the problem here.
I’m marking this one resolved. While not an elegant solution, O&O Shutup gave me these options affecting notifications that allowed me to turn everything off:
One might argue that turning off all notifications is a bad idea; however, I do not remember Windows ever giving me a notification I needed. I tend to put notifications in the same category as Clippy.
… I don’t see these suggestions from Microsoft popping up on my screen ..
Spoke too soon. I got my first pop-up notification from sender “Suggested” nagging me to purchase an Xbox wireless controller.
I clicked the Manage Notifications link in the pop-up, which opened my list of senders at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions | Get Notifications From These Senders, and confirmed that a new sender called “Suggested” has recently been added to my list of senders. I disabled the “Suggested” sender and that seems to have stopped these notifications.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3448 * Firefox v117.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23080.2006-1.1.23080.2005 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.2.281-1.0.2131 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7279
I don’t have “Suggested” sender on Windows 10 Pro 22H2…
Hi Alex5723:
When I checked my Win 10 Pro v22H2 settings on 08-Sep-2023 at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions | Get Notifications From These Senders I did not have a “Suggested” sender.
I’m not sure if this sender was added to my notification settings during my Sept 2023 Patch Tuesday updates (which I installed on 16-Sep-2023) or a few days later on 20-Sep-2023 when these “Suggested” pop-ups ads first appeared on my system, but Microsoft appears to be rolling out this feature slowly – see the section titled “Annoying PC Training Notifications” in Gunter Born’s 07-Nov-2022 Microsoft’s Annoying Windows Ads: Edge Suggests Bing, PC Training Notifications in their Born’s Tech and Windows World blog.
If this is an experimental feature and Microsoft is still gathering feedback before deciding if it should be rolled out to all users then Microsoft should have limited testing to users who have enrolled in the Windows Insiders program instead of pushing these annoying pop-up ads out to “regular” users.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3448 * Firefox v117.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23080.2006-1.1.23080.2005 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.2.281-1.0.2131 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7279
… My registry entry is identical to that suggested by PerthMike. I did not make the change manually, so I cannot be certain where it came from. Did O&O Shutup work? Did Microsoft push out the change in an update?…
Hi WUBRINY:
I assume it was the one of the notifications settings you changed using O&O Shutup that you described in post # 2587982.
My registry entry at Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings\Windows.SystemToast.Suggested also has a value of 0 because I disabled notifications for the sender named Suggested at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions | Get Notifications From These Senders to stop these annoying pop-up ads. If I turn notifications back on for the sender Suggested that registry entry changes back to a value of 1.
There’s no need for home consumers to make manual registry edits or use a third-party Windows configuration app like O&O Shutup10++ to stop these pop-up ads – just turn off the sender named Suggested in your Windows notification settings as shown in the first image above. The solution MikePerth provided in post # 2586448 to use Group Policy (GPO) to edit the registry only applies to system administrators who want turn off notifications (pop-up ads) for the Suggested sender and push out that change to multiple client computers on a network.
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Dell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3448 * Firefox v117.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23080.2006-1.1.23080.2005 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.3.282-1.0.2151 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7279
I don’t have this entry in my Windows 10 Pro 22H2. I don’t use any 3rd party tweaking tools.
Hi Alex5723:
Just to clarify, you said in post # 2588861 that you do not see the pop-up ads from “Suggested” that are being discussed in this thread.
If these (experimental?) pop-up ads haven’t been rolled out to your system then I would not expect you to have the “Suggested” sender at Settings | System | Notifications & Actions | Get Notifications From These Senders or to see a registry entry for this sender at Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings\Windows.SystemToast.Suggested.
Also note that your image indicates you are looking in the wrong location in your registry (i.e., at Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\… instead of Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\…). I only noticed this because I made the same mistake the first time I went looking for the registry entry for notifications from “Suggested”.
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Dell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3448 * Firefox v117.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23080.2006-1.1.23080.2005 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.3.282-1.0.2151 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7279
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