[Req] Windows 11- Disable Start Menu Backup to One Drive Upsell

[JustArion]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Every 3-4 weeks or so I get an annoying "Important Account Notification" in the start menu, when clicking on it, its the sales team!. They bring you a One Drive backing up your Documents / Music / Pictures / Videos upsell.

The notification would appear here as an orange dot.

Describe the solution you'd like Add / modify options in winutil to permanently disable the Backup to One Drive upsell via the Start Menu

Describe alternatives you've considered The only 2 options are to "Start backup" which directs you to the following window

(This is the same as opening One Drive's "Settings", going to "Sync and backup" and then clicking "Manage backup")

Additional context Using ProcMon I've discovered that "StatMenuExperienceHost.exe" (The Start Menu) sets a registry key when dismissing or interacting with the nofitication. The key path is Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RulesEngine\StateManager and the Value is Data so the full path is Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RulesEngine\StateManager\Data

The key can be queried by executing this in a terminal reg query 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RulesEngine\StateManager\' /v Data

It returns a JSON object that should roughly show the same data as mine:

{
    "Version": 2,
    "States": [
        {
            "RuleId": "42",
            "Client": "*",
            "ImpressionCount": 5,
            "ImpressionDate": "2024-08-03T17:23:54Z",
            "DismissCount": 0,
            "DismissDate": "",
            "InvokeCount": 4,
            "InvokeDate": "2024-08-01T08:23:10Z",
            "SnoozeDate": "2024-08-03T17:23:54Z"
        },
        {
            "RuleId": "42",
            "Client": "startmenu",
            "ImpressionCount": 5,
            "ImpressionDate": "2024-08-03T17:23:54Z",
            "DismissCount": 0,
            "DismissDate": "",
            "InvokeCount": 4,
            "InvokeDate": "2024-08-01T08:23:10Z",
            "SnoozeDate": "2024-08-03T17:23:54Z"
        }
    ],
    "UserContext": "US;en-US;en-US",
    "LastAlertTimestamps": [
        {
            "Client": "*",
            "Timestamp": "2024-08-03T17:23:54Z"
        },
        {
            "Client": "startmenu",
            "Timestamp": "2024-08-03T17:23:54Z"
        }
    ]
}

My best guess is to change the startmenu client timestamps to something absolute into the future (eg. 100 years into the future) and the InvokeDate and SnoozeDate, which should in theory (untested) remove the notification permanently.

[JustArion]

The ProcMon when clicking the dismiss notification

Disabling some notifciations via GPEdit might work instead of all this (The key is DisableAccountNotifications)

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