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Blanket Disable or Minimize Notifications

LaunchBox for Windows

šŸ“‹ Summary

Currently, LaunchBox allows you to change how notifications are displayedā€”via LaunchBox Notifications, Windows Notifications, or Message Boxes. However, none of these options fully disable notifications, and all can feel intrusive depending on the workflow.

ā— Problem

  • Thereā€™s no native way to completely disable notifications.

  • The closest workaround is to set notifications to Windows and then manually block them in Windowsā€™ settingsā€”an awkward and unintuitive solution.

  • Existing options (LaunchBox popups, Windows notifications, message boxes) can be distracting, especially during long sessions of adding or updating games.

šŸ’” Proposal

Add a setting to:

  • Fully disable notifications across LaunchBox, OR

  • Offer a minimal mode with subtle, non-intrusive notifications.

For example, replace large popups with small progress bars or banners (like the current top-of-screen progress indicator when importing games) that donā€™t interrupt workflow.

šŸ§© Benefits

  • Cleaner, distraction-free experience for users who donā€™t want constant popups.

  • Reduces screen clutter, especially for multi-monitor setups.

  • More control over how information is presented without resorting to OS-level workarounds.

Posted by Feldherren Ā·
Status: Open To Community4 comments

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  • AstroBob changed status to Open To Community
    Teamā€¢

    Aug 12, 2025

    Pinned

    Hi there!

    Thanks so much for submitting this request and for taking the time to explain your use case ā€” that context is always super helpful.

    Iā€™ve gone ahead and fleshed out the main idea using the info you provided, and Iā€™m opening it up to the community for further discussion and feedback. Please let me know if this fleshed-out version doesnā€™t match your original intended request.

    Feel free to let me know if you have any extra thoughts, examples, or edge cases you think might be relevant!

    Cheers,
    The LaunchBox team

  • asdofhdsaop

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    Jan 31

    iā€™m getting pretty tired of being asked to update stuff every time i open launchbox

    • asdofhdsaop

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      Jan 31

      switching to windows notifications and blocking it works for the nagging popup, but I still see the indicator in launchbox menu bar. iā€™m not sure why itā€™s so hard for devs to understand i do not want to update until i want to update

  • Feldherren

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    Aug 12, 2025

    Let us blanket disable notifications

    Currently all we can do is change how notifications are handled - Launchbox Notifications, Windows Notifications and Message Boxes, all of which are kind of obnoxious in their own way. The closest you can get to disabling them is setting it to Windows Notifications and then disabling notifications from the application in Windows, which seems less than ideal.

    Please add an option to just disable notifications, or at least give us a more subtle, more quiet, less ā€˜covers a quarter of my screen or makes a popupā€™ option; the bars at the top of the screen that show progress ingesting applications would be perfect, for example.