How to stop 1 hour of work, break? notifications.

[Pete W]

Hello all
Every hour a notification pops up in a small black box "x hour of work, break?"
How can I disable this?

 

[Ian]

Hi Pete, welcome to the forums!

I've never seen this notification before, it sounds like it's a 3rd party script running. If you take a look at your Startup Apps, is there anything relating to this in there?:

https://www.windows10forums.com/articles/manage-startup-programs.1/

If that doesn't work, try taking a look in task manager when the notification appears and see if you can track down the application name in the processes tab, then let us know.

 

[sgoobee]

Hi Pete,

Are you talking about 'Timer' tab from 'Alarms & Clock'?
I found it in Task Manager>App History> Alarms & clock> Timer.

 

[Tambo_17]

Hi, Looking at this thread I see it is pretty old. However, I wondered if you got a solution to your question? I too have the same experience and I recall setting the "break" reminder in Windows but cannot remember where it is.

 

[Bighorn]

I don't recall having seen the thread but do recall years ago there was a program, maybe two or more, that dealt with using a computer and during its training process prompting the users when to take a break, can't remember the name [too many years have passed].

 

[Tambo_17]

I thought it would be a useful tool but now it is just irritating. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to turn it off.

 

[Tambo_17]

OK, I have resolved this. It has nothing to do with Windows 10 and everything to do with the built-in menu on the monitor being used. I have an AOC monitor and if you single press the power button a menu pops up. Head to "OSD Setup" and scroll to "Break Reminder" then select <Off>.

 

[Bighorn]

Good to know. TVs are getting smarter, why not monitors?

 

[ruksak]

I thought it would be a useful tool but now it is just irritating. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to turn it off.

Just bought this AOC monitor 2nd hand, not a bad monitor at all but man does it have a bunch of seeming useless features. The monitor settings interface leaves a lot to be desired as well. Thanks to everyone on this thread, I can't believe I found a solution so quickly.