Win10 - disable notifications in lock screen

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I’m trying to disable all the notifications from the lock screen. I found this page http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/31116-lock-screen-app-notifications-turn-off-windows-10-a.html but I can’t get the registry change to work.

I assume that I need to run it a current user (because of HKCU).

I have so far tried two different methods:

prefetch RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe.tmp sha1:fd0c5a7bec0e9a4741bbe1804e9c4a62e42d6d25 size:149903 http://hexen.solita.fi:52311/Uploads/fd0c5a7bec0e9a4741bbe1804e9c4a62e42d6d25/RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe.tmp sha256:2c4043b7ac0b0668137bd9bd5778075d3389c1f6b71d0ab2ae8904fd87c3a4b7
extract RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe.tmp

run __Download\RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe --w --q CMD.exe /c "reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\settings /v NOC_GLOBAL_SETTING_ALLOW_TOASTS_ABOVE_LOCK /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f"

and

action uses wow64 redirection false

delete __createfile
delete wizardedit.reg

createfile until @end_create_reg_file
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings]
"NOC_GLOBAL_SETTING_ALLOW_TOASTS_ABOVE_LOCK"=dword:00000000
@end_create_reg_file

move __createfile wizardedit.reg

prefetch RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe.tmp sha1:fd0c5a7bec0e9a4741bbe1804e9c4a62e42d6d25 size:149903 http://hexen.solita.fi:52311/Uploads/fd0c5a7bec0e9a4741bbe1804e9c4a62e42d6d25/RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe.tmp sha256:2c4043b7ac0b0668137bd9bd5778075d3389c1f6b71d0ab2ae8904fd87c3a4b7
extract RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe.tmp

run __Download\RunAsCurrentUser-2.0.3.1.exe --w --q regedit /s "wizardedit.reg"

I made this second one with registry wizard and added RunAsCurrentUser.

Both tasks seem to run without errors and show as Completed, but nothing is changed. Any ideas?

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To manipulate the current user’s key you don’t need to run as the user, you can get their key into the HKEY_USERS hive with the relevance current user key https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/registry.html#current-user-key-of-registry-registry-key

This will allow you to just manipulate the registry on their behalf. Remember HKCU is just a view into the HKU hive.

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I managed to get it to work with the solution in this thread (before you replied):

Could you give me an example how to use the “current user key”? I’m still not fully familiar with the relevance language.