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Why does the "Restart Office to apply privacy settings" not go away even after i have closed all office products, restarted them i have even restarted PC and still every time i open an office priduct i have this same issue?
Restarted multiple times in different applications, rebooted PC still same error
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This simply did not work for me. Two days and ten hours in without a fix. Something is rotten in Redmond.
This worked for me, but the fix lasted for less than 24 hours. Tried it again, and the cmd prompt won't recognize the "update version" command.
Very annoying, to say the least.
Okay...I restarted my PC just now, and the stupid "restart to apply privacy settings" or whatever it is message is back.
C'mon, Microsoft...get your sh*t together on this!!!
MS 365 is not the only office suite in town, and others are much, much less expensive.
Same issue here - This annoying privacy setting message has returned! And to my amazement it has returned after an update to Windows!
So, once again I did the rollback using Tracy's advice earlier in this thread, and this message disappeared again. But are we going to repeat this process each time the computer restarts or installs any sort of update?...
Okay...I restarted my PC just now, and the stupid "restart to apply privacy settings" or whatever it is message is back.
C'mon, Microsoft...get your sh*t together on this!!!
MS 365 is not the only office suite in town, and others are much, much less expensive.
I tried all of the methods and tried the command line fix and it worked for my Word document.
Then I got the same error when I loaded Excel.
I did the same fix for Excel as Word.
It seems to have worked.
Now it is July 12 and the issue has returned.