The world’s most used operating system on PCs , Windows 10, has a huge number of its own functions, many of them customizable. This allows us to adapt the behavior of the system to our personal needs, which gives us many advantages in its daily use.
Thus, in these lines we want to focus on the notifications section, necessary elements, but at the same time, sometimes somewhat annoying. These, with the passage of time and the versions of Windows , have evolved, reaching what they are today. They are currently represented by an animated rectangular shape that appears on the screen at any time. We see these in and out in the lower right corner of the screen, something that can happen at any time while we work.
The importance of notifications in Windows 10
These notifications have already become a key part of our experience with Windows 10 , many of them extremely useful. But at the same time administering them is sometimes considered somewhat annoying. This is because the interaction with them seems to be optimized to use the mouse. With this we tell you that if we want to reject a notification , the only way to do it is using the mouse, which is not always very comfortable.
However, as we are going to show you below, you can also discard notifications with the keyboard. For this, it is enough that we carry out a simple trick that was recently shown to us by an engineer from Microsoft . Therefore, if we put ourselves in the situation that we are working with the keyboard and a notification appears that we want to discard, let’s see how to do it.
How to make them disappear with the keyboard
In that situation, the first thing will be to press the combination of Windows + Shift + V keys to focus on the notification that appears. At that time we should see a white rectangle in the notification itself, which means that the focus has changed to it. Therefore, when the time comes, we will just have to press the Delete button on the keyboard and the frame will disappear. In this way, what we achieve is that in less than a second and by pressing four keys the notification will no longer be on the screen.
It is also important to know that with these steps we have taken, discard notifications with the keyboard, it works just as if we did it with a mouse. Therefore, if the application is configured to save these messages in the Activity Center, rejecting it in this way will not be removed from the mentioned section. On the other hand, if there is no configuration for the Activity Center , the notification is completely discarded and disappears. At this point, we say that we also have the possibility to specify the display time of the Windows 10 notifications .
With this what we want to make clear is that this new method of discarding using the keyboard, internally in Windows 10 has no difference with the traditional one. At the same time we must bear in mind that what has been described above works in all versions of Windows 10, both in stable versions and those that are to come. Windows 10 2004 or 20H1 is included here in which Microsoft will begin its official worldwide distribution next spring.