How to disable Quick Action icons in Windows 10 Action Center

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If you do not take much use for the Quick Activeness icons in the Activeness Middle of Windows 10, yous can easily remove or hide those 4 displayed buttons. The Notification & Action Center on Windows x, displays important notifications in the top function and provides buttons that let you perform important deportment chop-chop.

Past default, the Activeness Center displays four Quick Actions, with an arrow that lets you lot Aggrandize or Collapse the Action Eye in order to show more than 4 buttons. The new operating system even allows yous to cull & arrange the Quick Actions to display – but if yous wish you can also hide the displaying of these 4 Quick Actions as follows.

Disable Quick Action icons in Action Eye

To remove or disable Quick Action icons in Windows 10 Action Centre, Run regedit and navigate to the post-obit registry primal:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Vanquish\ActionCenter\Quick Actions

In right-side pane, y'all will run into PinnedQuickActionSlotCount DWORD. Double-click on information technology and in the box which opens upwardly, change its value from 4 to 0.

Exit Registry and restart your Windows Explorer.

Yous volition now encounter that the displayed 4 Quick Action icons have disappeared and you come across a blank space. The Expand or Collapse arrow will of class still allow y'all to toggle showing of the Quick Actions.

In this fashion, you tin can hide the iv displayed Quick Action ions from the Action Center if you wish.

What is the use? Naught really. It is just something which Windows x lets you do.

If y'all wish, you lot can fifty-fifty become a step further and disable the entire Notification and Action Middle in Windows 10.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Delight read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Betoken before making any changes to your system & be careful most any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.