How to Increase the Notification Limit in Action Center Beyond 20?

MesterPerfect · Sep 15, 2024

Hi everyone,

I'm currently using both Windows 10 and Windows 11, and I've enabled push notifications on several websites. As a result, I receive a large number of notifications in the Action Center.

However, I've noticed that the Action Center only displays the 20 most recent notifications, and I get the message:
_"Action center shows only the 20 most recent notifications."_

Is there any way to increase this limit from 20 to 50 or more? I'd appreciate any advice or potential workarounds that can help me manage notifications more efficiently.

Thanks in advance!

antspants · Sep 15, 2024

Nope.

You could change the priority and try to discriminate between what notifications you get…. Maybe?

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garlin · Sep 15, 2024

UPDATED: Skip down to post #8 for a shorter solution.

This was surprisingly easy.

1. Download DB Browser for SQLite.
2. Open "C:\Users\GARLIN\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db"

3. Browse Data -> Table -> "Metadata". Change the value for toast:maxCount.

4. File -> Exit. When asked, save changes to database. While the database is loaded, no new notifications can arrive. Apparently the Action Center counter stops after 99 messages.

antspants · Sep 15, 2024

Nice.

garlin · Sep 15, 2024

When you ask Action Center to clear notifications -- it will only remove 20 at a time. So you have to hit Clear Notifications over and over, until they're all gone.
That's probably hard-coded into Action Center.

garlin · Sep 17, 2024

I wrote a short batch file, which runs without needing DB Browser. Update the "$maxCount = " value for how many notifications to keep.
When the script runs, it may ask you for permission to run as Administrator.

IncreaseNotifications.bat:

Code:

<# : batch script
@echo off
powershell -nop ^
"if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] 'Administrator')) { ^
    Start-Process 'cmd' -ArgumentList '/c start /min %~dpnx0' -Verb RunAs ^
} ^
else { ^
    Invoke-Expression ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText('%~f0')) ^
}"
goto :eof
#>

if (-not (Get-Module PSSQLite -ListAvailable)) {
    Install-Module PSSQLite -Scope CurrentUser -Force
}

$maxCount = 50

$DataSource = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db"
Invoke-SqliteQuery -DataSource $DataSource -Query $('UPDATE "main"."Metadata" SET "Value"=' + $maxCount + ' WHERE "_rowid_"=''2''')

jolly · Nov 6, 2024

FYI, you probably want to change both toast:maxCount and toastCondensed:maxCount .

If you want to keep the notifications alive longer, or not auto dismiss:

REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility" /v MessageDuration /t REG_DWORD /d 300 /f
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Launcher" /v DisableLightDismiss /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Launcher create(or set) a DWORD(32-bit) value labeled as "DisableLightDismiss" and set it to "1".
Removing the value or setting it to "0" will restore the default behaviour.

Now if I could only get it to automatically expand the notifications :/

utquality · Jan 26, 2025

garlin said:
UPDATED: Skip down to post #8 for a shorter solution.

This was surprisingly easy.

1. Download DB Browser for SQLite.
2. Open "C:\Users\GARLIN\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db"

View attachment 108830

3. Browse Data -> Table -> "Metadata". Change the value for toast:maxCount.

View attachment 108831

4. File -> Exit. When asked, save changes to database. While the database is loaded, no new notifications can arrive. Apparently the Action Center counter stops after 99 messages.

View attachment 108832

Hey brother.

Thanks a lot for your solution. Its working well. But i can increased max. 49. I tryed 99 but it doesnt work. Do you have any recommendations for me ?

My second question; Is it possible to send Windows notifications in real time to telegram or gmail address?

garlin · Jan 26, 2025

utquality said:
Thanks a lot for your solution. Its working well. But i can increased max. 49. I tryed 99 but it doesnt work. Do you have any recommendations for me ?

My second question; Is it possible to send Windows notifications in real time to telegram or gmail address?

The database can easily track more notifications than the Action Center can handle, but that's an Action Center problem.

Windows notifications are designed to flow into Windows, and not the other way around. Usually a developer will create a Windows app or cloud service which relays notifications to outside endpoints, at the same time. But you can't ask Windows to re-forward notifications.

dacrone · Jan 26, 2025

you can use sendEmail to schedule a task triggered on an event ID. i have it in use via a gmail with an app password to send emails whenever users logon to specific PCs. i dont know what event is logged for action center notifications. you'll have to figure that part out

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

here's a how to, just modify what you need to when you figure out the correct trigger:

Make Windows Send Email Notifications on User Login

Download and Extract sendEmail portable app to desired location
Create Gmail account
Create App Specific Password
Set to forward to good Email Account (as this gmail is just a junk account used for this task)
Task Scheduler > Create Task
Name the Task and Description and Select the “Run whether the user is logged on or not” radio button. Don’t save the task yet. – Set to Computer Administrator account

Triggers > New > “At log on” > “Any user” > Check Enabled

Actions > New > add a new action.
Type the sendEmail application path under the “Program or Script” field, and then add the below command as the arguments in the “Add arguments” field (edit to your desired intention (ie - remove computer name, username, etc)

-f [email protected] -t [email protected] -xu [email protected] -xp APP_PASSWORD -s smtp.gmail.com:587 -o tls=yes -u "EMAIL_SUBJECT" -m "%username% has logged on to %computername%"

While adding, don’t forget to replace “[email protected]” with your actual email address and PASSWORD with your actual email account password. If you want to you can also edit the email subject [-u] and the message part [-m].

Note: if you are using other email services, then you also have to change the SMTP server address and the port number.

Here is what the command line options actually mean.

-f – From email address
-t – To email address
-xu – Username
-xp – Email account password
-s – SMTP server address with port number
-u – Email subject
-m – Email body

Click on the “Ok” button to save the changes.
Conditions > uncheck the “Start the task only if the computer is on AC power” & “stop if the computer switches to battery power”

utquality · Jan 27, 2025

garlin said:
The database can easily track more notifications than the Action Center can handle, but that's an Action Center problem.

Windows notifications are designed to flow into Windows, and not the other way around. Usually a developer will create a Windows app or cloud service which relays notifications to outside endpoints, at the same time. But you can't ask Windows to re-forward notifications.

can we output notifications to word, excel or text document ?

garlin · Jan 27, 2025

There's a paid Microsoft Store app Notification Logger, which saves a record of your notifications (probably by mirroring them from the database), and exporting to CSV. I have no idea how good the app is. The screenshot indicates the app has smart filtering by well-known categories.

utquality · Jan 27, 2025

garlin said:
There's a paid Microsoft Store app Notification Logger, which saves a record of your notifications (probably by mirroring them from the database), and exporting to CSV. I have no idea how good the app is. The screenshot indicates the app has smart filtering by well-known categories.

Brother;

Thank you soooooo so so so so so much for this solition... its working great.. you save my life :)

utquality · Jan 27, 2025

garlin said:
There's a paid Microsoft Store app Notification Logger, which saves a record of your notifications (probably by mirroring them from the database), and exporting to CSV. I have no idea how good the app is. The screenshot indicates the app has smart filtering by well-known categories.

Do you have any idea for cleaning windows notifications center after 50 notif.

i doing manually rn, if we can find solution for auto clean its will be perfect..

I am grateful for your help

garlin · Jan 27, 2025

I can't figure out how to remove individual ones, but you clear all Action Center notifications using a script:
How to programmatically clear Win10 Notifications in Action Center

utquality · Jan 29, 2025

Guys, i cant still solved automatical notif. cleaning. Any idea for this? If we can do it we can recive notif unlimited..

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:
UPDATED: Skip down to post #8 for a shorter solution.

This was surprisingly easy.

1. Download DB Browser for SQLite.
2. Open "C:\Users\GARLIN\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db"

View attachment 108830

3. Browse Data -> Table -> "Metadata". Change the value for toast:maxCount.

View attachment 108831

4. File -> Exit. When asked, save changes to database. While the database is loaded, no new notifications can arrive. Apparently the Action Center counter stops after 99 messages.

View attachment 108832

I don't see a solution in post #8, am I missing something? Regardless I will try this out, thanks so much!!

garlin · Aug 29, 2025

Post #6. Sorry :facepalm:

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:
Post #6. Sorry

Lol ty :)

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:

I wrote a short batch file, which runs without needing DB Browser. Update the "$maxCount = " value for how many notifications to keep.
When the script runs, it may ask you for permission to run as Administrator.

IncreaseNotifications.bat:

Code:

<# : batch script
@echo off
powershell -nop ^
"if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] 'Administrator')) { ^
    Start-Process 'cmd' -ArgumentList '/c start /min %~dpnx0' -Verb RunAs ^
} ^
else { ^
    Invoke-Expression ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText('%~f0')) ^
}"
goto :eof
#>

if (-not (Get-Module PSSQLite -ListAvailable)) {
    Install-Module PSSQLite -Scope CurrentUser -Force
}

$maxCount = 50

$DataSource = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db"
Invoke-SqliteQuery -DataSource $DataSource -Query $('UPDATE "main"."Metadata" SET "Value"=' + $maxCount + ' WHERE "_rowid_"=''2''')

Thank you so much once again!! I ran it though and I got an error saying a folder in my downloads called "Increase" could not be found, any idea?

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