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I'm talking about the notifications that appear in the bottom right corner and disappear by themselves in a few seconds. However, they sometimes can take up a lot of space and get in the way, which is bothersome. You can 'swipe' them away with your mouse to get rid of them faster, but is there a way to do the same using only the keyboard?

To be clear, I don't want to delete the notification from the Action Center, but rather to dismiss it for later viewing.

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Blasphemous Theoretical
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    There isn't a native method to do that, no. Depending upon how much time and effort you want to devote towards accomplishing this, [AutoHotkey](https://autohotkey.com/) can potentially be configured to do it. People have already done similar things in previous versions of Windows, configuring AutoHotkey to [dismiss system tray notifications](https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=7305). – Run5k Dec 30 '16 at 21:58
  • I see, I suspected as much. I may try to make an AutoHotkey script for this, in that case. Thanks for your comment. – Blasphemous Theoretical Dec 30 '16 at 22:30
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    THANK you very much for pointing that I can SWIPE it away! There is no "close" button, so how could I ever guess that? – alexkovelsky Apr 22 '18 at 21:18

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Hiding all currently displayed notifications for viewing them later works by opening and closing the Action Center. (Press [Win]+[A] two times)

When you need a total pause from notifications, you can open Action Center ([Win]+[A]) and enable Quiet Hours.

Also if a single app causes a bunch of messages you can reduce the maximum number of simultaniously displayed notifications per app to one:

Use the Windows key + I keyboard shortcut to open the Settings app. Click System. Click Notifications & actions. Click on the source of notifications you want to regulate. Choose the number of displayed notifications: [1, 3, 5, 10, 20] where 3 is standard.

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  1. Press Shift + Win + V. This will move the focus to the notification.
  2. Then, Delete, to dismiss it.
    • Previously, you had to press Shift + Tab, Spacebar

Found with some help from Winaero: Dismiss Windows 10 Notification From Keyboard

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