DatGuy1/Windows-Toasts

If you disable notifications for that specific app, you can never enable it again

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infinitepower18 commented

If you click on "Turn off all notifications for [app name]" when clicking on the 3 dots on the toast notification, it stays permanently disabled with no way to undo it. The program doesn't show in notification settings, so I tried to reverse the change via the registry by selecting the name of my program in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings and deleting Enabled, which has a value of 0. But it still didn't enable notifications. I tried every single guide available on the internet, all said the same thing but for some reason it doesn't work. Even restarted my computer several times.

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I could use System Restore to revert the changes but for some reason it's not working for me right now, whether I do it from the OS itself or via recovery mode.

I don't know what else I can do to reverse this change. Do you know a solution for this?

I am using Windows 11 build 22000.708.

DatGuy1 commented

There's probably a better way of doing this, but try this:

  1. Use one of the scripts to register the AUMI. Should be able to just run register_hkey_aumi.py -a "WSA Sideloader" -n "WSA Sideloader".
  2. Open 'notifications and actions' in Windows settings
  3. In 'get notifications from these senders,' find your program, disable it and reenable it
  4. It should now work. If you'd like you can also delete the AUMI

My guess is the name is probably stored somewhere as a SQLite database but couldn't find it.

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infinitepower18 commented

Yes it worked. Thank you so much!
Is there a reason why it doesn't appear in notification setting during normal use?

DatGuy1 commented

I'm guessing here, but when running it without prior setup Windows probably assigns it a random AUMI. Then when it's disabled, it includes the application name (i.e. WSA Sideloader) as something to block. If you would've tried to send a toast with a similar application name through windows-toasts, such as WSA Sideloader 2, it would've worked.

DatGuy1 commented

Also just wanted to mention you're the first person I've seen use my package, so that's nice to see.

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