Need help getting Windows 10 News notifications working again.

I've found a number of posts on how to turn off Windows 10 News notifications, but none on how to get them working again if enabling it in settings doesn't work. I stopped getting new news notifications on my notebook in the past few weeks. A monthly rollup went through in that time, but I don't really remember if that triggered the problem.

The icon in the system tray has been solid white for weeks. At one point a new notification actually did appear, and I was hoping the issue would go away after that successfully opened the new news story. But the problem has persisted.

My Windows 10 PC showed no new notifications until I clicked the non-white icon, and saw no articles listed. However when I exited the notification pane, Windows grabbed 3 new articles, showed the white icon that then did show the articles.

I've tried disabling notifications, exiting News, going back in and re-enabling it again. But that didn't get them working again.

Has anyone seen this before and/or know how I might me able to kick-start getting this working again on my notebook?

dalchina said:

You could try uninstalling the app and reinstalling it... (see Tutorials) or simply wait for the next feature update delivered over the next couple of months or so.

Good suggestion dalchina. I'd considered that but couldn't find info on the process. I'll look for that tutorial here. Thanks!

Excellent! I found the 'Reset' option in the Settings > Apps > News menu and ran that. Rebooted and all's good again. Thanks so very much for pointing the way to the solution dalchina.

Love and really appreciate all the excellent support I've gotten in these forums from the many very informed folks like yourself over the years dalchina.

Thanks for checking that dalchina. Your 'Notifications & actions' settings menu looks different from mine. And the one on my Notebook looks different from the one on my PC, which might look more like yours.



I've always had system sounds either set to 'None' in Control Panel, or disabled in Sound Mixer. But I still get a fly-out notification when I 'Safely Remove Hardware', and that comes with an entirely different audio alert then the one listed in the Control Panel Sounds menu. Both Device connect and Device disconnect sounds play fine when I test them. But the Action Center sound alerts are different. The fly-out for disconnecting looks like this.



So I'll keep trying to find some info on addressing problems with the Action Center, as news and the screen video recorder notifications aren't working either.