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
    2020-01-07T21:30:59+00:00

    Thanks for the note. I wonder exactly how that was done but might experiment.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-07T16:20:59+00:00

    I have waited in a long queue for Microsoft Technician's online help. He took control of my computer, and seemed to delete my login for the Office 365 account, so that Office no longer recognised the licence for Office. There must have been some kind of reset. He then signed me back into Office by using my MS registered email address and there it was fixed. Good work from the technician, and I kept my Privacy Settings as I wanted them! Good result. Shame that MS couldn't give better advice with their "help pages"! Hope this helps!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-02T20:42:00+00:00

    I am curious if you have Office installed on multiple devices? In my case I have an Android Tablet besides my Surface Pro tablet. This error for me started I believe when I made modifications to my privacy settings on my Android installed version of O365 that I share OneNote Notebooks between.

    I seem to recall stumbling on a note where if you have mismatched privacy settings between devices this might cause this issue. Just haven't had time to compare between the systems yet. I have a life I would like to lead vs spending days troubleshooting WIN10 install/update issues which for me have become very prevalent.... :-) I cringe every time an update is forced upon me. 

    I fix something, new update, problem back. Really annoying, especially with devices.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-01T15:00:57+00:00

    I have MS Office 2019 Desktop purchased November 2019 with a brand new Dell machine.  I get this message every time I reboot. 

    I have:

    -Repaired office

    -Repaired online

    -Used Office Support where they looked at my settings

    -Reinstalled Office 

    I still get this message every time I reboot my machine.  It'd love to know why I get it when I have not changed my settings.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-01T14:18:10+00:00

    Yes, I think I am in a similar situation, I declined data collection from Cortana long ago (I hope!) as I don't like data mining. So I guess cumulatively this has resulted in these endless messages. It's MSs job to sort this, they gave us privacy options and we have taken the options that suit us. They need to fix this, I have made my privacy choices and until the Office Reset is done I guess they are now mining my data without consent! Did you get that MS?

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