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
    2019-10-12T21:31:34+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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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-29T07:20:19+00:00

    mine wont even LET me click the "off" button!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-02T15:46:54+00:00

    SOLUTION: Go to focus assist - Go all the way down to 2nd line from below, it says "When I'm using an app in full screen mode". Turn it off, and it should work. They have automatically made it so that when you go full screen on something, it will turn off notifications...

    Nope, the darn function was working fine but last few days everytime i go into anything full screen i no longer get sounds. This setting as well as all other are turned off. The darn thing needs to be listed in services or such so i can disable it if it is malfunctioning.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-12T11:32:53+00:00

    Same problem with me.  Tried all the fixes in this thread, but nothing seems to work.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-12T00:28:32+00:00

    I'm having the same issue - I can't even switch it off.

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