How to Show or Hide Badges on Task bar Buttons in Windows 10 ?

Windows 10 is indeed an awesome operating system that can be synchronized with any kind of people including student, designers, developers and office purposes. The leading software company, Microsoft, has been developing Windows 10 since a long time now and it’s been almost one and half year since they have been launching Insider Preview of Windows 10 so that developers can use that and give feedback which will eventually help Microsoft to build a better operating system.

Recently Microsoft launched Anniversary Update of Windows 10, which comes with loads of new features those will assist you to do something faster and in a better way.

You know that Taskbar is one of the oldest features of Windows, which can be found at the bottom of the screen, where you can pin your most useful apps to open them quickly. You can pin almost everything in the Taskbar.




For example, you have pinned the Mail app and you want to know how many emails you have in the unread section. In other words, suppose you want to know the number of unread emails without opening the Mail app. To get things done, Anniversary Update of Windows 10 will aid you for sure since you can find the badge on Taskbar buttons in Windows 10.

For them, who want to experience the aforementioned situation, this is really an awesome enhancement or inclusion. However, let’s assume that you have pinned many programs and all the badges are making a mess in your Taskbar. Therefore, you want to hide badges on Taskbar buttons in Windows 10. To do so, just follow the following guide.



Show or Hide Badges on Taskbar Buttons in Windows 10


This is very easy and not much time consuming as well. The best part is you do not have to download any third party app to show or hide badges on Taskbar in Windows 10. Microsoft has included an option in the Settings panel of Windows 10 Anniversary Update that will assist you to hide the corresponding badge. Although, this is not possible to disable badge for a particular app, but you can do that completely. For your information, if you are using Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14328 or later version, you can use this guide as well.

To get started, open Settings panel. For that, just press Win + I button together. You can find an option called Personalization. Click on that to open further settings. Now, go to Taskbar settings from the left bar. Here, you should get Show badges on taskbar buttons option on your right-hand side. By default, it should be on.



Just toggle the button to turn off badges on Taskbar icons in Windows 10.

That’s all! This is as simple as said. Hope you will like this simple tutorial.

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