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

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-20T21:04:52+00:00
    • Close all your Office Applications.
    • Delete the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity' hive.
    • Re-launch the Office App and wait for a few seconds (re-login to Office Apps in case you get a prompt) to re-create the hive we deleted above.
    • Close and re-launch your Office Apps and this should address your issue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-16T00:33:45+00:00

    This issue has been bothering me too for months.  I made a setting change today and so far the Restart message has not come back.

    Windows Settings

    > Privacy

    > Diagnostics and Feedback

    --> Diagnostic Data: BASIC

    **This is what I changed below**

    --> View Diagnostic Data:  TURN ON

    it took me to App Store to download the software.

    This worked for me as well!  :)

    I'm going to try turning the "View Diagnostic Data" back OFF and see what happens.

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  4. 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

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