Windows 10: Permanently disable Focus Assist?

I've noticed the Focus Assist feature for a couple of weeks now and I've always wondered why it keeps enabling itself. It makes me miss potentially important notifications. It looks like Focus Assist enables itself whenever my Thunderbolt 3 docking station with two external monitors gets connected. I believe Windows thinks I'm going to go in presenting mode, and it'll hide notifications for me.


All good and well, but these are just normal work monitors. I'm not presenting anything.


I've disabled Focus Assist, again, and it will come back when I reconnect my dock... So can I prevent Focus Assist from enabling itself, i.e. permanently disable it?


Alternatively, fix Windows so it knows when I'm *actually* presenting something. But right now, it's too intelligent for its own good, or rather, not intelligent enough. I'd rather not have too much intelligence though, because I have a brain that's most likely better for the foreseeable future

Besides, most presenting tools tell Windows to withhold notifications anyway, so we don't really need another mechanism.

:)

 

Windows focus assist


Hello Mike, *Smile

Focus Assist used to be called "Quiet Hours".

It's a feature that basically allows you to pause or stop showing notifications when they would be inconvenient.

Here's some tutorials below to give you more details:

Turn On or Off Focus Assist in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

Change Focus Assist Automatic Rules in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

Customize Focus Assist Priority List in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

 

Windows focus assist

Ah, i just realized you can turn it off for gaming mode. Its might be help while i am working on my essay. Thanks.

 

Focus Assist Alerts


Is there a way to disable the sound for focus assist alerts? I don't see the point in the sound alerts when the point of focus assist is to reduce "noise".