Open Notifications + Calendar Command by default

[Eichen97]

I wanted to do this for a while, so i created a .vbs file that opens the action center, and closes it in case it was already open. it depends of a .txt file on the same route to check the notification center status because it's snappy enough for me and works great as is, but you could probably adapt it to a powershell script to be able to check it natively and skip the .txt file and add it as another built in functionality in a future update.

Dim fso, statusFile, status
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Check if the NotificationStatus.txt file exists
If Not fso.FileExists("NotificationStatus.txt") Then
    ' If it doesn't exist, create it and write "closed" to it
    Set statusFile = fso.CreateTextFile("NotificationStatus.txt", True)
    statusFile.WriteLine "closed"
    statusFile.Close
End If

' Read the current status from NotificationStatus.txt
Set statusFile = fso.OpenTextFile("NotificationStatus.txt", 1)
status = statusFile.ReadLine
statusFile.Close

' Check if the status is "open" or "closed"
If status = "open" Then
    ' If the status is "open", send an Escape keystroke to close notifications
    Set wshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    wshell.SendKeys "{ESCAPE}"
    
    ' Update the status to "closed"
    Set statusFile = fso.CreateTextFile("NotificationStatus.txt", True)
    statusFile.WriteLine "closed"
    statusFile.Close
Else
    ' If the status is "closed", open the Action Center
    Set wshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    wshell.Run "ms-actioncenter:"
    
    ' Update the status to "open"
    Set statusFile = fso.CreateTextFile("NotificationStatus.txt", True)
    statusFile.WriteLine "open"
    statusFile.Close
End If

[vhanla]

Are you perhaps talking about Windows 10's Calendar that can be shown using hotkey Win+Alt+D?

If so, you can use this method, which consists of finding out the classname of the calendar/clock notification window and its title to detect it in order to escape otherwise trigger the hotkey Win+Alt+D, for that I'm using Spy tool from AutoHotkey to get the hovered window's classname and title and create the command for hotkeys as follows:

#[Windows.UI.Core.CoreWindow,The Title in your Windows locale given to this window]:(escape)?(_win+_alt+d)

i.e. #[class,title]:(hotkey if found)?(hotkey if not found)

ShowCalendarWin10.mp4