What's happening here?

BrianInEngland · May 18, 2026

Follow up post to the one I made Saturday about notifications not working and getting event log errors

This is just from today, for every notification I get an error and no notification shows for any app. However if I log in to another user (local account) it's working fine

The second PC here has now started showing the same problems today.

The only thing/s that can be causing it is the latest update to .8514 or the latest Nvidia drivers, which were installed just before the problems started

Very annoying error as it prevents notifications of anything, but I'm slightly less stressed now knowing it's not anything to do with my hardware

HeavyHemi · May 18, 2026

What's happening? I broke my rule about opening posts with obscure titles.

BrianInEngland · May 18, 2026

HeavyHemi said:
What's happening? I broke my rule about opening posts with obscure titles.

That's helpful!
Any useful suggestions?

BruceR · May 18, 2026

Delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications

Or see Windows Push Notifications User Service has stopped working

dalchina · May 18, 2026

Can you uninstall the suspect update to see if behaviour changes? (System restore is a possibility for that).

The second PC here has now started showing the same problems today.

And when did that receive these updates- assuming it has?

BrianInEngland · May 18, 2026

dalchina said:
Can you uninstall the suspect update to see if behaviour changes? (System restore is a possibility for that).

And when did that receive these updates- assuming it has?

Windows update was Thursday, GPU update was done Saturday. Problem started with this one yesterday.

dalchina · May 18, 2026

And thank you for your reply.

If I wanted to deal with that I'd use a relevant restore point (and use the scan option). But then, I have one created daily on schedule as per a tenforums tutorial.

You'd have to see what you have, I guess.

Helmut · May 18, 2026

Unfortunately this sounds familiar.
It was many years ago that I thought updating Nvidia drivers to the latest was important/useful until this happened:

Uninstalled Nvidia driver then installed the latest.
Oh dear, all the Right Click Context Menus were gone in Windows XP at the time.

Doing a lot of tedious research it emerged that the uninstallation of the Nvidia driver had stripped out a branch of the Registry dealing with those Right Click context menus.
I manually reconstructed that Registry branch which resulted in getting back the Context Menus.

Observations after that showed that Nvidia's list of older drivers dropped quite a few versions, wonder why...
It was the usual Windows/Nvidia uninstaller not any of the other 3rd party ones in this case.
Back in those days I did not do Images, forget whether I tried Restore points.

I'm on Build 26200.8457, not the RP channels for good reasons.

BrianInEngland said:
The only thing/s that can be causing it is the latest update to .8514 or the latest Nvidia drivers, which were installed just before the problems started

Well that makes it a 50/50 chance.

glasskuter · May 18, 2026

BrianInEngland said:
However if I log in to another user (local account) it's working fine

Uhh, that puts the issue in your user account, not in windows.

BrianInEngland · May 18, 2026

glasskuter said:
Uhh, that puts the issue in your user account, not in windows.

On two different PCs with different accounts?

dalchina · May 18, 2026

accounts can be differently configured in numerous ways. And then there's the question of whether, for example, the two problem accounts are MS accounts and synched.. don't think that's yet known.

BrianInEngland · May 18, 2026

dalchina said:
accounts can be differently configured in numerous ways. And then there's the question of whether, for example, the two problem accounts are MS accounts and synched.. don't think that's yet known.

Both PCs have MS accounts but on my PC I have an additional local account and the problem doesn't occur there

dalchina · May 18, 2026

And as it seems I have to take the point from my previous post and ask the question:

Are these accounts synched?

BrianInEngland · May 18, 2026

dalchina said:
And as it seems I have to take the point from my previous post and ask the question:

Are these accounts synched?

Synced to what? They're both separate MS accounts

BrianInEngland · May 19, 2026

Problem confirmed by another user
Seems to affect MS accounts which is why the problem wasn't happening with my local account

fg2001gf11F · May 19, 2026

BrianInEngland said:
Problem confirmed by another user
Seems to affect MS accounts which is why the problem wasn't happening with my local account

View attachment 171876

I still only use local accounts, that could explain why I don't see your problems.

dalchina · May 19, 2026

Synced to what? They're both separate MS accounts

Again thank you for your reply.

I guess you are unaware of how Settings etc can be synched between MS accounts (same MS account) on different PCs. I.e. to each other.

As you say they are separate, I assume (unclear from your reply once again - think of your readership, please) I assume you mean the login credentials are different.

Anywat, given your replies, I've lost interest and I'm out. Unsubscribed.

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