diff --git a/src-tauri/Cargo.lock b/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
index 7d56637..ac9aa6d 100644
--- a/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
+++ b/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
@@ -4929,6 +4929,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "time",
  "url",
+ "win7-notifications",
+ "windows-version",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5977,6 +5979,16 @@ version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "7219d36b6eac893fa81e84ebe06485e7dcbb616177469b142df14f1f4deb1311"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "win7-notifications"
+version = "0.4.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "63b4745047a00800bd8f2b8fb4b0eb6f7d96822084127f0ff7d68d07f692fe38"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi"
 version = "0.3.9"
diff --git a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index e5bcc3c..0756c1b 100644
--- a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ tauri-plugin-single-instance = "2.0"
 tauri-plugin-process = "2.0"
 tauri-plugin-autostart = "2.0"
 tauri-plugin-http = "2.0"
-tauri-plugin-notification = "2.0"
+tauri-plugin-notification = { version = "2.0", features = ["windows7-compat"] }
 # window blur
 window-vibrancy = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }