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
    2019-08-18T01:17:11+00:00

    Upgrading to 1903 broke this for me. Have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and Windows thinks the desktop is a full screen app and enables Focus Assist for all profiles.

    There is a possible workaround for this. If you have GeForce Experience installed, open it up and disable "in-game overlay" in the General settings. When I do this, it stops Windows 10 from thinking the desktop is 'full screen' mode.

    Myself and many others have reported this problem in the Microsoft Feedback Hub.

    Thanks, I found this out a few hours ago. I also submitted feedback. Found that when I created a new profile it worked fine until I logged into GeForce Experience. That at least pointed me in the right direction knowing that application was the root cause.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-30T18:52:12+00:00

    I right click on notification icon in the taskbar and turn focus assist OFF.

    I minimize my web browser on my primary monitor (1of 2).

    When I maximize the browser again focus assist turns back on.

    Sad thing is I don't even know what focus assist is. But it's annoying because it's notifying me I have no notifications. SMH

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-09T02:10:54+00:00

    How about you JACK ASSES STOP trying to make use **** WE DON'T WANT!!!!! I HATE this stupid thing. My **** computer, AND I HAVE NO CONTROL OF IT!!!! Sick of this ****.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-12T21:31:34+00:00

    I have to deal with this **** too sometimes.  But ALL Windows problems are solved by using Linux!!! F MS!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-10-13T00:06:28+00:00

    F***** stubborn people...

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