The Settings app handles the basics fine, but these tweaks still send you straight back to the Control Panel ...

Desktop notifications are one of those things you don’t think about until they stop working. Then they suddenly matter a lot. In my case, Google Calendar reminders suddenly stopped appearing on my ...

The notifications at the bottom right of the Windows desktop screen can be practical. If you’re waiting for an important e-mail, for example, you don’t need to keep opening the mail program to look ...

A Push Notification is a pop-up message that appears whenever new content is added to an app or a website. You can configure push notifications for different websites ...

And Microsoft’s adding your phone app notifications to the Start Menu. And Microsoft’s adding your phone app notifications to the Start Menu. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who ...

You can change notification sounds for emails and calendar events directly within the new Outlook app for Windows. In classic Outlook, you can choose whether to play a sound when a new email arrives.