Windows 10: notification center stops working. Have to restart to get it back. Why?

I Have an older dell laptop running windows 10. I have installed all updates and have not changed any settings. Several times the action center will just stop working. nothing will come up when I click the icon or right click and select open action center. have to restart to get functionality back. I have also noticed that several of the ms services will use 100 percent of hard drive.

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Stop action center notifications in Windows 10

Hi Emily,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I apologize for the inconvenience caused. We are glad to help you.

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  Do you want to stop notifications only from Defender or stop all action center notifications?
  

To stop action center notifications, I suggest you to follow the steps given below:

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  Type settings in search bar and hit
  enter.
  
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  Go to system.
  
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  Select notifications and actions.
  
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  Click on turn system icons on or off.
  
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  Turn off action center.
  

Reference: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/change-notification-settings-in-action-center

Hope this information helps. Do contact us for further queries. We will be happy to assist you.

Regards,

Jenith

 

Action Center stopped working after 1809


So I just realized that I am not getting any notifications, I check with several programs and with Notifications Visualizer app from the store.
The weirdest thing is that the speech bubble icon shows the notification count correctly but no notification sound or toast is displayed when the notification arrives and on top of that, after opening the action center itself, the notifications don't appear in the list, it's completely empty.

I tried to create a new user and without even restarting the pc, I just logged off and switched account, the notifications work on the other account.

Focus assist is disabled, I double checked.

Do you happen to know any way to reset the action center?
The event viewer lists:

Toast with notification tracking id 46 is being delivered to 58300WindowsNotifications.NotificationsVisualizer_8rkfj2ay7vd1w!App on session 1.

Start Toast Notification Forwarding activity

Stop Toast Notification Forwarding activity



58300WindowsNotifications.NotificationsVisualizer_8rkfj2ay7vd1w!App looks like an app, maybe reinstalling it could fix the issue?

 

Action Center Notifications Stopped Working

Inexplicably, the Action Center notifications started working correctly again on their own. Many thanks to all for your suggestions.