Old pop-up notifications in Windows 10

Windows 10 pop-up notifications are terrible and slow. Is there a way to replace them with old Windows 7/8 notifications? I'm pretty sure it's possible since I did pretty much the same thing for sound mixer.

Windows 10 notification:

Windows 10 notification

Windows 8 notification:

Windows 8 notification


Solution 1:

Winaero posted a hack to enable the old Balloon Tips again:

  1. Open Registry Editor.
  2. Go to the following Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
  3. Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named EnableLegacyBalloonNotifications and set its value data to 1.

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  1. restart the PC.

Now you should have the old popups again.

That the Ballon Tipps is show in the left side is a bug, which is fixed since Build 10586.420 (KB3163018). Here is the changelog:

Fixed an issue that was causing balloon tip notifications to always appear on the upper left side of the screen.

To get the update just check for Windows updates in the settings app.