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

garlin · Aug 29, 2025

The original post #6 didn't have an attached file, you were suppose to copy & paste the text into Notepad.

To make it easier, I've attached a copy of IncreaseNotifications.bat (in ZIP form) to post #6.

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:
The original post #6 didn't have an attached file, you were suppose to copy & paste the text into Notepad.

To make it easier, I've attached a copy of IncreaseNotifications.bat (in ZIP form) to post #6.

I know, I did do that and changed the file extension to .bat.
But ohh you know what, I changed the file name which is why it likely didn't work. Thanks!

Out of curiosity though, what in the batch file is referencing the original file name?
I did actually change the file name to specifically "IncreaseNotifications.bat" like you have it, and that worked!

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

Unfortunately I don't think that worked, I got the same normal 20 notif max message

I'll try running it again but idk should I try your original post?
Edit: Hold up I realized CMD was in the background saying NuGet provider was required! Now I'm getting this error message tho..

garlin · Aug 29, 2025

Try it again, I found the script was saved in the wrong encoding (UTF-8 BOM). And I added an extra line because PowerShell was asking for confirmation before downloading the PSSQLite module.

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:
Try it again, I found the script was saved in the wrong encoding (UTF-8 BOM). And I added an extra line because PowerShell was asking for confirmation before downloading the PSSQLite module.

Now I got this error

garlin · Aug 29, 2025

Try it again, fixed the check for whether the SQLite module was installed.

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:
Try it again, fixed the check for whether the SQLite module was installed.

Idk it says this :/ Anyway thanks for trying to fix it, if we can get this working it'll be super useful to share in the end!!
I'm going to link to post #6 here atp so it's easier to switch pages loll: How to Increase the Notification Limit in Action Center Beyond 20?

garlin · Aug 29, 2025

Please run this command for me:

Code:

powershell "Import-Module PSSQLite -Verbose"

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:
Please run this command for me:

Code:

powershell "Import-Module PSSQLite -Verbose"

Will do when I get home

Name1 · Aug 29, 2025

garlin said:
Please run this command for me:

Code:

powershell "Import-Module PSSQLite -Verbose"

garlin · Aug 29, 2025

Try this version:

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
#>

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process
Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force

if ((Get-Module PSSQLite -ListAvailable) -ne $null) {
    Install-Module PSSQLite -Scope CurrentUser -Force
}

$Count = 50

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

Name1 · Aug 30, 2025

garlin said:

Try this version:

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
#>

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process
Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force

if ((Get-Module PSSQLite -ListAvailable) -ne $null) {
    Install-Module PSSQLite -Scope CurrentUser -Force
}

$Count = 50

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

POGG TYSM that worked!!! You are the goat! I'm going to share this on Reddit now with some people who might find this useful : D

Name1 · Aug 30, 2025

Here is a final working batch/.bat file people can use, you can edit the $Count = 50 to the number of notifications you wish to hold. Thanks so much again to @garlin for creating this!!

garlin · Aug 31, 2025

I've updated my version of the script, to allow you to specify the max count on the command line:

Code:

IncreaseNotifications.bat 50
IncreaseNotifications.bat 200

If you don't provide a valid number, the script resets the max back to the default 20. There's also improved checking if the PSSQLite module was already installed.

FFTW · Jan 28, 2026

garlin said:
I've updated my version of the script, to allow you to specify the max count on the command line:

Code:

IncreaseNotifications.bat 50 IncreaseNotifications.bat 200

If you don't provide a valid number, the script resets the max back to the default 20. There's also improved checking if the PSSQLite module was already installed.

Just wanted to say thanks for this script!

And for anyone having problems with it, it works well, one just gotta open it in notepad++ and change the number of the maxcount from 20 to the desired number :).

garlin · Jan 28, 2026

No, you don't have to edit the script. You provide the desired max count on the command line.

Since there always has to be a non-zero count, if you don't provide one then the script uses the same default as Windows (20). So no count on the command line is a way of resetting it back to 20.

FFTW · Jan 28, 2026

garlin said:
No, you don't have to edit the script. You provide the desired max count on the command line.

Since there always has to be a non-zero count, if you don't provide one then the script uses the same default as Windows (20). So no count on the command line is a way of resetting it back to 20.

I edited the script to 50 and a couple days after that to 100, and it worked fine both times after I edited it. The system allowed 50 notifications and then a 100. By contrast, when I tried to run it originally without editing it didn't give me an option to write anything in the command line, just ran and finished and nothing was changed.

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