https://www.verboon.info/tags/action-center/Recent content in Action-Center on Anything About ITHugoen-usMon, 31 Dec 2012 10:35:18 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2012/12/tooltip-windows-8-update-notifier/Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:35:18 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2012/12/tooltip-windows-8-update-notifier/<p>With the introduction of Windows 7 Microsoft started to pay attention to remove unnecessary noise from the Windows Desktop meaning reducing the number of system notification balloons. For details read the <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/11/11/action-center.aspx">Action Center</a> blog post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog.</p> <p>As you can see from the screenshot below, in Windows 7 the user can still receive notification messages about available Windows Updates.</p> <p> <img src="images/image_thumb3.png" alt="image"> </p> <p>But in Windows 8 this option has disappeared, meaning that in Windows 8 there are no Windows Update messages shown anymore on the desktop but only on the logon screen. The below screenshot shows the Action Center in Windows 8 and you’ll notice the Check for Updates option under Maintenance Messages is gone.</p>