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

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

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


The Action Center in Windows 10 collects and shows toast notifications and alerts from traditional Windows applications and system notifications, alongside those generated from modern apps. Toast and notifications are then grouped in the Action Center by app and time.

The Action Center will show you all of your past notifications until you clear them. This can be useful if you had a notification pop-up, and you missed what it said.

The Action Center also has personalized quick actions at the bottom to be able to easily toggle on/off or open items such as Airplane mode, All settings, Connect, Display, Location, Note, Quiet hours, Tablet Mode, VPN, and Wifi.

Starting with Windows 10 build 14328, there is a link below the new quick actions grid that will allow you to turn on or off the available Quick Actions.

Starting with Windows 10 build 16199, the Note button was removed as a quick action.

Starting with Windows 10 build 18277, you can now easily customize your quick actions right from the Action Center itself, rather than having to go into Settings. That means not only can you re-arrange in the moment, but you can also add any quick action you need on the fly, without needing for it to always take up space.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove quick actions in Action Center for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Add or Remove Quick Actions in Action Center in Settings
• Option Two: Add or Remove Quick Actions in Action Center Directly from Action Center

EXAMPLE: Quick Actions in Action Center









OPTION ONE [/i] Add or Remove Quick Actions in Action Center in Settings

*note This option is no longer available starting with Windows 10 build 18277.
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the System icon.

2. Click/tap on Notifications & actions on the left side, and click/tap on the Add or remove quick actions link under the Quick actions grid on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3. Turn on (add) or off (remove) quick actions for what you want to display in your action center. (see screenshots below)

*note The quick actions you have available will vary depending on your system.





4. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.






OPTION TWO [/i] Add or Remove Quick Actions in Action Center Directly from Action Center

*note This option is only available starting with Windows 10 build 18277.
1. Open the Action Center (Win+A).

2. Right click or press and hold on an empty area of the Action Center and click/tap on Edit. (see screenshots below)





3. Do step 4 (add) and/or step 5 (remove) below to add or remove quick actions from your Action Center.


4. To Add Quick Actions to Action Center
A) Click/tap on Add, and click/tap on the quick action (ex: "Network") you want to add. (see screenshots below)







5. To Remove Quick Actions from Action Center
A) Click/tap on the Unpin icon on the quick action you want to remove. (see screenshots below)






6. If you like, you can re-arrange quick actions how you want in your Action Center. (see screenshot below)



7. When you are finished customizing quick actions in your Action Center, click/tap on Done. (see screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Open and Use Action Center in Windows 10
• How to Enable or Disable the Action Center in Windows 10
• How to Change Number of Quick Actions to Show in Windows 10 Action Center
• How to Reset Action Center Quick Actions to Default in Windows 10
• How to Backup and Restore Action Center Quick Actions in Windows 10
• How to Rearrange Action Center Quick Actions in Windows 10

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Have to use keys instead of tapping the laptop since the update.

Move to Tablet mode.

Check Action Center for a tile. If not there go Settings, System, Notifications & actions, Add or remove quick actions, Tablet mode.

 

Brightness won't adjust on Windows 10

Go, Settings, System, Notifications & actions,Click on Add or remove quick action turn on Brightness.

This allows you to adjust brightness in 25% steps in the Action center.

 

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,

 

Hello @otium, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

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