


Right-click on Taskbar and select Settings option. If you also want to disable these badge notifications on Taskbar buttons, following steps will help you:ġ. That’s why Microsoft has provided an option in Taskbar settings page to enable or disable badges on Taskbar buttons. Similarly if have set an alarm in Alarms & Clock app, the badge on its Taskbar button will show the alarm status.Īlthough these badge notifications are a good addition to Taskbar buttons, but some users might want to turn it off. These small icons show the number of notifications similar to the notifications count on Action Center’s icon in Taskbar.įor example, if you are running Mail app and have some unread emails, Mail app’s Taskbar button will show the badge on it containing number of unread emails. Microsoft has introduced a new feature called “ Taskbar badge notifications” in Anniversary Update which shows small icons or badges on Taskbar buttons of running modern (metro or UWP) apps. That’s why today in this tutorial, we are going to tell you about this option usage i.e. If you turn this option on or off, nothing seems to be changed in the OS at all. This option is new in Windows 10 and many people are confused about this option. The Taskbar settings page contains all classic Taskbar properties options but you might be wondering about a new option present on the page which is “ Show badges on taskbar buttons“. Now if you right-click on Taskbar and select Settings, it opens Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbar page. If you have upgraded to newer Windows 10 version, you might have noticed that the good ol’ classic Taskbar properties box has been replaced by a new section present in modern Settings app.
