Windows 10: Action Center Quick Actions - Add or Remove in Windows 10 Mobile

How to: Action Center Quick Actions - Add or Remove in Windows 10 Mobile

How to Add or Remove Action Center Quick Actions on Windows 10 Mobile Phone


Information Windows 10 Mobile puts important notifications from your apps just a swipe away in action center, along with quick actions, which get you to your most-used settings and apps instantly.

Swipe down from the top of your screen to open action center and see your notifications and quick actions.

Quick actions take you right to (or turn on or off) the settings and apps you're likely to use often, from Bluetooth to brightness. Press and hold a quick action for a setting to jump directly to that setting's page. When you open action center you'll see either your top four picks or all your available quick actions. Expand or collapse them to see more or fewer quick actions.

Starting with Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14322, you can add, remove and re-arrange the Quick Actions that show up in Action Center.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing a quick action in the action center on your Windows 10 Mobile phone.


EXAMPLE: Quick Actions at top of Action Center









Here's How:

1. Open Settings, and tap on System. (see screenshot below)



2. Tap on Notifications & actions. (see screenshot below)



3. Tap on the Add or remove quick actions link under Quick actions. (see screenshot below)



4. Turn on (add) or off (remove) the quick actions you want for the action center. (see screenshot below)



5. When finished, you can tap on the Start button to return to your Start screen if you like. (see screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn


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Add or Remove Quick Actions in Action Center in Windows 10


Hi,

I wonder if there is a way to turn on/off certain Quick Actions icons in the Action Center via the registry, instead of doing it manually as described above.

Before asking here I've wandered through some posts and searched the internet. I've noticed these keys:

1/

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ActionCenter\Quick Actions\

Here's a list of names of all the Quick Actions.

2/

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ActionCenter\Quick Actions\UnpinnedByDefault

Here's a list of names of Quick Actions that should be Unpinned by default. If I add some here (based on the names in the list described above) and reboot it doesn't seem to work.

3/

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\ActionCenter\Quick Actions

The value PinnedQuickActionSlotCount here is set at 4, which is the amount of Quick Actions seen by default without expanding the view in the Action Center. I don't need to change this one so I haven't tried it.

4/

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Quick Actions\Pinned

There seems to be a numbered list here of Pinned Quick Actions. The names are the same as in the list I mentioned in (1/). However if I remove some values here it also doesn't have effect (even after a reboot).

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Conclusion: I haven't found a thing that actually worked. Did anyone figure this out already?

Thanks,

 

Add or Remove Quick Actions in Action Center in Windows 10


Hello @otium, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If it helps, you can use the method in the tutorial below to backup and restore your quick action settings.

*Arrow Backup and Restore Action Center Quick Actions in Windows 10 Windows 10 Backup Restore Tutorials

 

Quick Actions

I want to know how I can change the quick actions that you see in the expanded list on Windows 10 Mobile. I know how to change them for the four quick actions that appear at the top of the action center. I noticed silliness like open up OneNote and such
and want to put actual settings in place of those silly ones.

 

Action Center Quick Actions - Rearrange in Windows 10 Mobile


UPDATE:

In Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14342, the Settings app may crash when you are re-arranging Quick Actions. If it does, it could result in one of the Quick Action spots disappearing. If you see this happen, please refrain from changing your Quick Action settings on this build. If you have been impacted by this issue, only a hard reset will revert your Quick Action settings back to default.

 

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Hello Everyone,

Recently installed Windows 10 on my PC & wife's laptop. Her laptop has more options for the Quick actions buttons, scrolling list, and shows WiFi.

My PC has only 7 options for the Quick actions, no scrolling, and WiFi isn't one. Also, WiFi isn't shown on the Action Center window.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,

John