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Windows 10 - Notifications

• Definitions:
  • A tile is an app's representation on the Start menu. Every UWP app has a tile - sizes: small, medium, wide, and large.
  • A badge provides status or summary info in the form of a system-provided glyph or a number from 1-99.
  • A toast notification is a notification a UWP app sends to the user via a pop-up UI element (toast or banner).

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• Time notifications were last seen by the user:
  NTUSER.dat - \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications - ValueName: TimestampWhenSeen Value:(Filetime)

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• Notifications.sql
  SQLite query to parse the Windows 10 Notifications Wpndatabase.

  

• Notifications.ps1
  Powershell script to parse the Windows 10 Notifications Wpndatabase as well as information from the XML blobs: UPDATED - Toasts, Tiles & Badges now work ok (till proven otherwise) :)

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• wpn.ps1
  Powershell script to parse NTUSER.dat (\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications\wpnidm) entries:

  

  How the output of Notifications.ps1 & wpn.ps1 are linked together:

• PushBackup.ps1
  Powershell script to parse NTUSER.dat (Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications\Backup) entries:

• PushBackup.sql
  SQLite query to parse the (Windows 10 Notifications Wpndatabase) WNSPushChannel table.

  Comparison of the results of PushBackup.sql and PushBackup.ps1:

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• Microsoft Notifications Visualizer:

  • A very usefull app (MS Store) - Simply create a new document, and copy/paste the XML Blob from the database:

    DB Browser for SQLite:
    

  Visualizer Window:
  

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Other Information:

• Database location: C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db

• Backup (settings):

  • NTUSER.DAT: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications\Backup

• Image store location: C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpnidm:

  • NTUSER.DAT: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications\wpnidm
    
  • image: link image to application
  • image folder view
  • Expiration Date of Notification related to the image (Filetime):
    

• Typical XML blob structure:

  Badge	Tile	Toast

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• References:

  • Microsoft Notifications Visualizer
  • Toast content
  • Toast content schema
  • Tiles for UWP apps
  • Badge notifications for UWP apps
  • Notification delivery method
  • Create adaptive tiles
  • By default, tile and badge notifications expire three days after being downloaded. When a notification expires, the content is removed from the tile or queue and is no longer shown to the user.