# Notify

- Notifications are only available on Windows 8 or newer.

With these settings you can be notified when profiles start or finish.

- **Display a notification when the profile starts:** If enabled, when the profile starts a Windows Notification will be activated. If you click on the notification then the SyncBackPro window will be brought to the front.

- **Display a notification when the profile finishes:** If enabled, when the profile finishes a Windows Notification will be activated. If you click on the notification then the profiles log is displayed.

- **Display a notification when a profile prompts:** If enabled (the default), when a profile prompts a Windows Notification will be activated. If you click on the notification then the SyncBackPro window will be brought to the front. A prompt includes displaying the [Differences](TheDifferencesWindow.md) and [File Collision](TheFileCollisionWindow.md) windows.

- **Disable profile prompt notifications for ALL profiles:** If enabled then profile prompts are never shown. This is a quick way to switch off the notifications if you find them distracting.

### Why did a notification not appear?

SyncBackPro uses standard Windows notifications. This means Windows itself, and not SyncBackPro, controls if and when a notification appears on the screen. If a notification you were expecting did not appear, e.g. when a profile finished or failed, then it is usually because Windows chose not to display it:

- If **Do Not Disturb** (Windows 11) or **Focus Assist** (Windows 10) is switched on, then Windows will not show the notification popup. The notification is not lost: it is delivered silently to the Windows Notification Center, where you can read it later.
- By default, Windows turns on Do Not Disturb automatically while you are playing a game or using an application in full-screen mode, e.g. watching a video. During that time notifications will not interrupt you, and instead they go silently to the Notification Center. You can change these automatic rules in Windows **Settings > System > Notifications**.
- To see notifications you may have missed, open the Notification Center. On Windows 11, click the date and time in the taskbar, or press **Win+N**. On Windows 10 it is called the Action Center, and is opened by pressing **Win+A**.
- Windows also lets you disable notifications for each application. If SyncBackPro notifications never appear at all, not even in the Notification Center, then check in Windows **Settings > System > Notifications** that notifications are enabled, both in general and for SyncBackPro.

**Further reading:** [Notifications](https://www.2brightsparks.com/resources/articles/notifications.html) on the 2BrightSparks website.

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