How to enable pop-up email notifications for Windows 10's Mail app

How to enable pop-up email notifications for Windows 10's Mail app

The built-in Mail app for Windows 10 isn’t the most full-featured email client you can find, but it’s a nice, light alternative to a web client. One thing you may be wondering, however, is why you aren’t seeing pop-up Action Center notifications when you receive new emails.
Easy! You have to turn them on first. But let me warn you: once you turn on notifications you’ll get notified for every mail message you receive. Firing up your PC in the morning means a barrage of new mail notifications that come in one by freakin' one.

Getting notified

To start, make sure app notifications are active. They should be by default, but let’s just check in case you turned them off. Open the Settings app and go to System > Notifications & Actions. Under “Notifications” make sure the slider for “Show app notifications” says “On.”
Next, scroll down to “Show notifications from these apps” and make sure the slider for Mail is also turned on.

Now open the Mail app, select the acocunt you want to see notifications for, and then click on the Settings cog at the bottom of the left-hand navigation panel.
A Settings panel will pop out from the right side. Select Options and scroll down to the “Notifications” section at the bottom. By default, the Show in action center slider will be turned on by default, but that just allows notifications to appear in the slide-out Action Center panel.

To actually see notifications as new messages roll in you have to check the box for “Show a notification banner” to see banners pop-out in the lower right corner of your screen. If you’d like to hear the Windows 10 chime each time you get a new notification click the box next to “Play a sound as well.”
Once that’s done, click away from the Options panel to make it disappear. That's it! Your Action Center notifications for the Mail app are ready to roll.
If you want to see notifications for multiple accounts, open that account’s inbox in the Mail, app, click the Settings cog and repeat the process above.

How to Enable Insider Preview Build Updates In Windows 10

How to Enable Insider Preview Build Updates In Windows 10

Did you know Windows 10 comes with a built-in option which allows you to receive the latest preview builds of Windows 10 whenever Microsoft rolls them out? Called the Insider Preview builds, these can be grabbed with the flip of a button right from your Windows 10 machine, and we show you how, right here in our step-by-step guide below.

Microsoft recently released the first Insider Preview build of Windows 10 since the public launch of the OS in late July. The new build brings in a few improvements in how memory protocols are handed, as well as some additional color tweaks. There’s no real word on when the next build will land, but Microsoft has already announced the Windows 10 will be handled as a service, unlike previous versions of Windows.

So if paltry improvements and fresh new tweaks entice you enough to test out these builds on your own PC, let’s get down to business.
Prerequisites:

A genuine activated copy of Windows 10 Home, Pro, or Enterprise installed on your PC. A working Internet connection.

Instructions:

• Step 1: To begin, launch the Settings app (Windows key + I), and head to Update & Security.
• Step 2: In the Windows Update section, click Advanced options.

Step 3: Scroll down below, and you should see a header titled Get Insider builds, along with a button reading “Get started”. Click it.

Step 4: Windows will now prompt you to sign in using your Microsoft account. Once you have signed in, simply follow the on-screen instructions to start receiving Insider Preview updates in Windows Update.

If the “Get started” button – as highlighted in Step 3 – is not active and is grayed out for you, do not be alarmed as this can be fixed. Simply launch Settings and navigate to Privacy > Feedback and diagnostics and click the menu under Send your device data to Microsoft to invoke a drop down menu. Make sure “Enhanced” or “Full” is selected in the menu.

It is important to note that Preview builds are meant for the more experienced and advanced Windows users who want to test the latest features before anyone else. These builds in some cases can cause issues, too. We recommend enabling them on a test machine rather than your main primary work machine.