How to Edit and Reset Windows 11 Action Center

This practical guide explains how to edit and reset Windows 11 action center. Follow the steps in order, review the requirements first, and use the troubleshooting notes when a setting or option does not work as expected.

Edit Action Center on Windows 11

Step 1:

Press Windows + A to open Action Center. Next, select the pen icon to edit.

Step 2:

Then you click Add to add the setting to the Action Center interface. To unpin the setting displayed in the Action Center, you click the pin button to remove it.

How to fix the error of missing Action Center editing icon

Step 1:

Open Registry Editor on your computer and then access the path below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelQuick ActionsControl CenterUnpinned

Then look to the side, you delete the value Microsoft. QuickAction. Edit . Restart the computer for the changes to be applied.

How to resetting Windows Action Center

In case you have problems with Action Center, create the Notepad file below.

REG DELETE "HKCUControl PanelQuick Actions" /F taskkill /f /im explorer.exe start explorer.exe

We will save this file with the name and extension.bat as shown below.

Finally run this file with Admin rights to reset Windows Action Center.