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
    2020-05-01T14:21:09+00:00

    I also have all Windows General Privacy options set to OFF.  I do not wish to share any data with them.  However, under the Diagnostic setting it only gives you two choices, Basic or Full.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-01T13:14:41+00:00

    Thank you for the feedback. Mine has stopped giving me the messages as well but I believe because I recently updated and I’d bet my privacy settings have been changed again for me.

    The whole point I believe is if you turn off data sharing with microsoft in privacy, the annoying message behavior starts. It sounds like what you have done is just enable the data sharing, at least basic. I have not had the chance to test if my settings have been changed yet. Might be possible a recent update has finally fixed this issue.

    Will report back.

    GS

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-01T21:18:11+00:00

    I spoke too soon.... :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-01T04:35:31+00:00

    I trid Morten Wieth's suggestion, and OneDrive Personal is listed. It won't let me remove it as I can't click it on, and there's no option for removing it. 

    Something needs to work. Between getting the "restart to update privacy settings" in Word and Outlook when I haven't changed my privacy settings, I also get a message in those programs after they've been up for a couple of minutes that the programs "have run into a problem and needs to shut down" with repair, shut down or close as the options. It's making using Word and Outlook impossible as I can't read mail without restarting or I lose work in Word when it shuts down unexpectedly. I don't run these programs on any devices other than my desktop PC.

    I've tried contacting MS customer service, but none of their repair suggestions have worked. I am at wit's end because it's becoming impossible to use these programs.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-29T02:09:55+00:00

    Good to know, I’ll give it a try, thanks!

    It seems to be affected all my O365 apps.

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