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The notification area displays icons of tasks or programs that run 
continuously in the background and displays notifications. To learn 
more about each task, position the pointer over the icon for a few 
moments and a short description of the task appears.

Typical tasks in the notification area are Current time, Power usage 
mode, network connectivity status, and speaker volume.

To activate a specific task, click or touch the appropriate 
notification area icon.

There are many types of notifications you can employ to help you 
with the many tasks you perform every day.

User experience notifications can be set for toast, tile, badge, and 
raw notifications.

Toast notifications—Designed for time-sensitive delivery of 
personalized content, such as an instant message from a friend.

Tile notifications—Used by applications that are not currently 
running with an at-a-glance characteristic, giving you a quick 
preview of the subject line of your latest email or the current 
weather conditions.

Badge notifications—A specialized type of tile notification (shown 
on the Start screen tile) using glyphs to indicate the number of 
applications that have updates available or the status of a running 
application.

Raw notifications—These run a background task on behalf of an 
application while that application is not running in order to make 
available the latest content, such as an online newspaper.

Although many applications will be pre-installed or built-in to your 
computer, you will also have the ability to download many other 
applications with a touch or the click of your mouse.

In the Windows

®

 Store you can search for and browse thousands of 

apps, all grouped into easy to find categories.