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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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I HATE Microsoft's "focus" features. At least in Outlook when I disable it it stays off. With Focus Assist, I keep turning off in settings or via action center and it keeps turning itself back on, especially if I maximize a window/program. I want to permanently disable or uninstall this feature. Microsoft stop trying to help me focus on what you think is important to me!
I forced the May 2019 update. So far it looks like they've fixed the problem. I have focus assist turned off and now I'm getting all my alarms.
Pleas I need also to disable definitively this ******
The desktop turns on Focus Assist. If you show desktop or close all apps, Focus Assist turns on. Forget the troubleshooting, tried it all, it's bugged.
same here... it is off until i click to show desktop or manually minimize the last window that is still showing... of course closing all apps does it to, but it seems to be something with showing the desktop.
Microsoft, you need to fix this. This is a bug that has been there for going on for a while. Give us an option to permenantly disable this or stop the service from running and starting up automatically.
