How to keep all notifications in Windows 11?

Hello, in Windows 11 I have enabled all notification permissions, allowed apps to access notifications, and turned on the sliders for system apps, yet some notifications disappear immediately after appearing and are not stored anywhere. I have also tried tools like Notification Logger, but the situation hasn’t improved. Is there a reliable way to ensure that all notifications are retained?
Thank you in advance for any advice.

Hi yastil,

Do you mean you don't have any notifications when you click on the time and date in the taskbar?

Kind regards,

tecknot said:

Hi yastil,

Do you mean you don't have any notifications when you click on the time and date in the taskbar?

Kind regards,
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The notifications appear briefly and then disappear without being saved in the Action Center, so if I’m away from the PC, I don’t see anything.

I've been playing with Sysmon lately, so a solution built around that tool comes to mind. Indeed, if your goal is to capture activity that triggers notifications, not the notifications themselves, then Sysmon + Event Logs is the right tool.
For example:
- A driver crash → Sysmon Event 6 (driver loaded) + System log
- A service failure → Sysmon Event 4 + Service Control Manager
- A security alert → Defender log
- A network block → Firewall log
You can subscribe to these logs with a PowerShell watcher and append entries to a file in real time.
This is the method I recommend because it’s:
- reproducible
- scriptable
- timestamp‑accurate
- cross‑machine consistent
If you're willing to use Copilot to help with scripting, or interested in scripting this out for yourself, it will at least let you watch what you think you want to. But gosh, no, I'm not aware of a single mechanism to capture all Windows notifications.
Great question, though...
--Ed--

There's two problems to solve:

1. Default notification history is limited to 20 items. Your previous events may have rolled over. The table size for the notification database can be increased to a larger number, but the UI for displaying old notification stops tracking past 200 events.

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

2. Each notification is tagged with an ExpiryTime stamp. A notification can disappear if it's been rolled over, or the ExpiryTime has expired. Some notifications aren't supposed to be persistent. The idea is the notification could be time-sensitive, so reviewing it much later isn't going to be helpful.

The reason "Notification Logger" and similar Store apps exist is to copy events out of the database so they can't be lost. But you can't view them in the Notification Center. That kinda sucks.

In theory, you could write a script or process to extend the database's table size, and then periodically scan the existing entries and extend the ExpiryTime field. But the tradeoff is then old notifications don't get cleared in a timely fashion.