How To, Software, Tips & Tricks

Turn Off Windows Sound Notification Banner

by Sanjib Ahmad

Operating System: Windows 10

In an earlier article I posted how to How to Disable Windows Volume Popup, but that required a small 300 KB program to be installed.

In my opinion the real-offensive element is actually the browser notification banner that gets attached to the media control popup. This is what I mean:

Both Chrome and Firefox notification banner attaches to this volume popup. Disable it like this:

Chrome

  1. In Chrome address bar, type chrome://flags/
  2. Then find the setting Hardware Media Key Handling and set it to Disabled.

Firefox

  1. In Firefox address bar, type about:config
  2. Then set media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled to false

Enjoy just the volume control bar without the ugly offensive banner!

2 thoughts on “Turn Off Windows Sound Notification Banner”

  1. Thank you very much for this! The banner is very annoying, especially seeing it pops back up when I move my mouse in that area, and have to wait for it to disappear again…

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