Unable to disable Focus Assist

Anonymous
2018-12-21T14:27:49+00:00

The Alarm App is a vital to me. I uses it for medication reminders. It has work flawlessly for me for a year. The Windows 10 update that introduced Focus Assist has rendered it useless. I've turned off all the options in Focus Assist. I've turned it completely off in the settings menu. I've been through forums, Google searches, I've tried everything I have found. This damn focus assist keeps turning itself back on and I'm missing my crucial alarms for when I NEED to take my pills. I toggle the feature to Off from the system tray and it stays off for about 1-2 seconds and then it switches from Off to the moon symbol. I need to destroy this feature. A DLL to delete, a service to uninstall, a registry edit.... Anything would be helpful. This focus assist garbage is breaking key essential apps that used to work fine.   

***Modified title from: How Do I utterly remove, disable, break Focus Assist?***

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-12-22T17:14:49+00:00

    Hi Nikhar,

    Thank you for taking the time to respond. I created a new user id. Unfortunately, it's still doing the same thing. 

    Those are my settings. I recorded a video of the focus assist icon changing in the notifications section (https://youtu.be/h8T6ZVE1y9o). I have tried many different settings. I have even activated focus assist to run for one minute 4:00am to 4:01am without any luck.  

    Thank you for your time and assistance, 

    Best Regards,

    Greg

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-22T06:30:15+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

    I do understand how frustrating it could be when the features are not working as they are supposed to work. We would like to know the troubleshooting steps that you have performed so that we can eliminate the recursion of the steps.

    However, as you have mentioned that Focus Assist gets re-enabled automatically after disabling it. This issue may be due to a profile corruption. Hence, in order to eliminate possibilities, I would suggest you to create a new user account, disable Focus Assist and check if the issue persists. Follow the steps from the article Create a local user or administrator account in Windows 10 to create a new user account.

    Hope it helps.

    Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

    Nikhar Khare

    Microsoft Community - Moderator

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