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The Action Center on my Windows 10 installation (1709) is really acting weird:

Whenever I click on the Action Center icon in the taskbar or press Win+A nothing happens. However if seconds or minutes later a new notification occurs the action center suddenly opens.

Once it has showed up everything works as expected. Only when I leave it returns into the "I don't want to show up mode").

I already check the Windows installation files (sfc /scannow and dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth) but no problems were revealed.

Is there a way to make the Action Center just to show up when I want and not when it feels like showing up?

Edit: I found out some more details. When I open the context menu of an application in the taskbar and leave the context menu open. Now, pressing Win+A opens the Action Bar as normal (but only this one time, afterwards it does not work again).

Robert
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Solution 1 (Confirmed)

I had this issue on one Windows 10 PC and the solution that worked for me was from admin elevated PowerShell command prompt I ran: 

Get-AppxPackage | % { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml" -verbose }

Source: Action Center does not open in Windows 10

Afterwards I rebooted the machine and then suddenly the Action Center started popping up and working as expected without any issue.

Note: For those that this occurs again after Windows hibernation, a workaround solution to further expand on this confirmed fix would be to run POWERCFG HIBERNATE OFF from an admin elevated command prompt to disable hibernation if possible.

Furthermore the Action Center does not open in Windows 10 post also mentions about renaming the UsrClass.dat file so consider completing that as well.

Other Potential Solutions

  1. Run Disk cleanup in Windows 10, reboot, then check it.

  2. Run applicable DISM commands, reboot, and then check it.

    • DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
    • DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SPSuperseded

  3. If after running #1 and #2 the problem comes back, consider repairing the corrupt user profile registry key as outlined in that post.

  4. If you wanted to be extra thorough if you confirm none of this is acceptable or resolves in a satisfactory manner, consider running a variation of the cleanup script I wrote about in the Windows 7 Cleanup before Clonezilla backup post which applies to Windows 10 too.

Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style
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I had this issue as well after customizing my system and changing the preferences of privacy items on my win 10 1809.

My solution is to turn on apps from running in the background and restart.

J. Doe
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