The “You need to fix your Microsoft account” notification pops up every 10 minutes with the new Anniversary Update. This notification appears because I am not signed into my Microsoft account. I do not wish to sign into my Microsoft account. Ever. Does anyone know how I disable this notification in REGEDIT? Note: I know … Read more
If I’m on a page that has web notifications (like Slack or others), Firefox asks me if I want to enable them. However, my choices are “Yes” or “Ignore for now”. The problem is, if I select “Ignore”, every time there is a notification it asks me again. This is incredibly annoying. How do I … Read more
I get Chrome notifications from several websites and they work when I don’t even have any tabs open for those sites. But sometimes I get these Chrome notifications when I am not at my desk or looking at my laptop. As some of these notifications are useful to me, I would like to be able … Read more
The place I work at has commands that take a long time to execute. Is there a command/utility that I can use to notify me when the command execution is over? It could be a popup window or maybe a little sound. Answer Generally, if you know this before running the command, you can just … Read more
New with Windows 10 seems to be the Notification Area. Now, I’ve seen a few notifications (in the Action Center). The problem is that I haven’t understood any of them (actively using computers for 30 years now), and once I click them they are gone. Is there any way to view these past user notifications … Read more
Most of the application can show nicely formatted notification on events that appear on top right corner of the screen. I’m about to write a bash script that will do fairy long processing in the background and I really want to know when it is finished. How can I show that nice notification from a … Read more
Any idea why my Mac terminal says: You have mail in /var/mail/lofye How can I make it stop saying that every time I open terminal? Answer Somehow you’ve had a script or something similar deliver mail to your account on your local machine which is stored in /var/mail/$USER You can either remove the file /var/mail/$USER … Read more
