How to Have Toast Notifications Show at Top or Bottom of Display in Windows 10

   Warning

This tutorial no longer works starting with Windows 10 build 9926 released on January 23rd 2015.

   Information

A toast notification is a transient message to the user that contains relevant, time-sensitive information and provides quick access to related content in an app. It can appear whether you are in another app, the Start screen, the lock screen, or on the desktop.

A toast notification can contain text, and toast notifications on Windows can contain images. A toast can also play a system-defined sound when it displays.

By default, toast notifications appear in the upper-right corner of your main display screen (top-left corner for right-to-left (RTL) languages).

This tutorial will show you how to have toast notifications display at the top or bottom right corner of your main screen when they appear in Windows 10.

   Note

This will only affect your user account, and not all users.

EXAMPLE: Toast Notifications at Top and Bottom right corner





Here's How:

   Note

The .bat files below are for the registry key and value below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

DisplayToastAtBottom DWORD

0 = Display at top
1 = Display at bottom

1. Do step 2 or 3 below for what you would like to do.

2. To Display Toast Notifications at Top
NOTE: This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .bat file below, and go to step 4 below.

Display_Toast_Notifications_at_Top.bat

Download

3. To Display Toast Notifications at Bottom

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .bat file below, and go to step 4 below.

Display_Toast_Notifications_at_Bottom.bat

Download

4. Save the .bat file to your desktop, and run it.

5. If prompted, click/tap on Run.
NOTE: If you like, you can stop getting the Run prompt by unblocking the downloaded .bat file.

6. You will now notice your screen flicker as explorer is restarted.

That's it,
Shawn