Restart Office to apply changes to your privacy settings - endless notices

Anonymous
2019-10-31T14:41:27+00:00

I keep getting the following in my office products:

RESTART REQUIRED  Restart office to apply changes to your privacy settings

I have not made any changes to my privacy setting recently yet keep getting these prompts. Anyone else running into and discovered what the cause of it is?

GS

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Other

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

56 answers

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-18T14:24:51+00:00

    Signing out of my Office-Account on all of the Office Apps, restarting the PC and then signing in again did the trick for me. 

    After signing in I was aksed to configure the privacy settings, which I did. After that no more nagging messages to restart!

    Hope I could help, it's a really nasty problem...

    All the best,

    Horst

    Was this answer helpful?

    3 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-10T06:58:24+00:00

    It is completely beyond fathomable that Microsoft, the biggest player in this business, gets away with **** like that. In my family, everyone gets this message on both corporate and home PCs (corporate and university licenses that allow installation at home)

    • so it's not just Office 365 Home that is affected. The message pops up and disappears quickly, is not logged in "notices" and thus not retrievable, and it helps nothing to actually restart the PC.

    I have the strictest privacy settings on all the machines I control, and I won't move away from that. It is the same as with Android, which will perma-complain that "basic functions are unavailable" once you restrict Google Play's access to everything it craves. But the system will run fine. So for all that matters, Office seems to work just fine, too. Having a few crashes on one of my machines with huge Excel files and only 8 GB RAM, but that is the exception.

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-07T15:58:52+00:00

    I have been getting this error for weeks.  Any updates as to how to fix?

    thanks

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-22T16:16:46+00:00

    It doesn't work for me. I'm using a private desktop PC, no mobile devices, don't use OneCloud, and have not enabled 'Connected Experiences'. (On the rare occasions that I need it, I turn it on and turn it off when I'm finished.)

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  5. Anonymous
    2019-11-01T17:36:49+00:00

    Hi,

    I understand you executed points 2 - 3, and the problem persists? If so, let me verify if I can find new alternatives for you, if I find them, I will inform you immediately.

    Regards

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments