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FIGURE 3-6: You can silence notifications from individual apps.

Working with Settings Shortcuts

      The action center contains a gob (that’s a technical term) of shortcuts at the bottom of the Notifications pane. In Figure 3-2, I count four of them. If the computer used a Wi-Fi connection, there would have been additional shortcuts for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, rotation lock, battery saver, and brightness. The maximum number of shortcuts available varies depending on whether you're using a desktop PC, laptop, tablet, or 2-in-1; its hardware configuration; and the apps installed.

      Quick actions mimic what you would find on a smartphone — airplane mode is an obvious analog — all readily accessible from the right side of the screen. In many cases, a quick action displays a Settings page, where you can change the individual setting, displays a pane on the right side of the screen (Connect, Project), or toggles a specific setting in, uh, Settings. The Screen Snip quick action opens the Snip & Sketch app, which you can use to take screenshots.

You have some — but not much — control over which icons appear at the bottom of the pane. Here’s how to exert as much influence as you can:

Table 3-1 explains what each of the configurable quick action icons does.

TABLE 3-1 Some Quick Action Icon Results in the Action Center