How to remove Windows Update notification in Settings Box

Reading your suggestion, I selectively turned off some notifications, then ALL notifications (in Manage Notifications), then also restarted.

NO change

I must presume that this icon or whatever is not a "Notification" per se but rather an INDICATION

Further, I am Admin and NEVER before was asked to "sign in", have even now "removed" my MS account, Settings still functions without me now "signing in" and it no longer shows on the Accounts page (only need it for Skype, and Skype still works, so I must still be signed in to MS Skype too)

Hopefully someone can come up with a solution ....

Airider said:

I must presume that this icon or whatever is not a "Notification" per se but rather an INDICATION

New thread about this recent Settings Page change here:

Redesigned Settings Page?

I know it has been changed by MS

I only want to change it back and remove this nonsense so it again looks like:




Thanks for any help ....

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from Post #30 Redesigned Settings Page?

Airider said:

Have had some MS "adventures" since my last [above here quoted] post.


First, while trying to get rid of the account / sign in "feature" at the top of Settings I deleted my MS account. Big mistake from which I recovered by signing in to Help with my MS Skype account, but then it put in my email account name 2x at the top of Settings! So worse than before.

Disgusted and after making & then undoing System Restore with NO effect, I used the Macrium Reflect-Free image I'd put made and stored on a USB flash drive last week. That worked, putting back the Windows Update banner but without the sign in stuff and my MS account was back in Accounts, but Window of course insisted on putting in the Cumulative 2004 Windows Updates, et al, which STARTED all this Settings nonsense. Since these are lengthy Security Updates, I downloaded & installed.

And guess what: Windows Update claims I am up to date .... and NOW Settings opens thusly:

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Am happy but not holding my breath till the same or another magical MS "Feature" pops up ....


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It only took a little over an hour ... but now it's baaaack. Anyway I now know that it can be a lot worse; see adventures in above post, in which instead of Admin my email "name" was [here only symbolically] written 2x like Abcde Abcde) so I will live with it till someone finds a solution.

It should be possible, since it was "normal" again about an hour ago, so the answer is in the system somewhere, somehow.

current status:

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see Post #30 Redesigned Settings Page?