| Suppress unwanted notifications
By Ed Bott
Notifications can be a powerful distraction. If you're trying to concentrate on the content of a PowerPoint slide deck that's due in an hour, the last thing you want is a series of messages popping up along the right side of the taskbar about incoming mail messages and news headlines.
Those same notifications can turn embarrassing if they pop up while you're presenting that slide deck to a room full of customers or co-workers, especially if the subject lines are personal in nature.
To suppress those pop-up messages so that you and your audience can concentrate, use Windows 10's Focus Assist feature, which is available in Settings > System > Focus Assist. With Focus Assist off, Windows displays all notifications. You can enable the feature manually by choosing Priority Only and then customizing the specific types of notifications that are allowed to break through, or choose Alarms Only to limit interruptions to alarms you've set.
On that same page, you can also define rules that automatically suppress notifications during specific times (such as when you're normally asleep) or when you're duplicating your display (to deliver that slide show).
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