How to override windows notifications/balloons/popups/outlookreminders

[njuneardave]

I have a full-screen C# app, but windows notifications (the little
balloons on the bottom right-hand of the screen) and outlook reminders
will pop on top of my app. i want to prevent them from doing so.


does anyone know how?


thanks so much

 

[njuneardave]

Thanks for the reply, Pete.


I did a poor job asking my question.

I want to disable all popups (Windows balloons and notifications,
email notifications, outlook reminders, etc...), but only when the app
is running. I don't want to make a persistent change, so I guess that
rules out registry changes. The outlooks pop-ups are just part of the
problem. And, this application will be distributed to several people,
so I'd like to inherently have my app block all "focus-stealing"
events while it runs.

 

[Ciaran O''Donnell]

I think the problem is that these popups and notifications arent focus
stealing. If you are writing in Word for Studio and Outlook pops up a
notification, you key presses still hit the app you were using. These things
just draw on top due (I guess) to them having a higher z-index or calling a
particular WinAPI function to make them totally topmost.

I would doubt this is possible as Microsoft will have coded Outlook
specifically to come on top of other applications like that.