Windows 10: How to disable "Pick up where you left off" feature?

All of the search results that I found from many websites/forum, all points back to the same thing - go to the Notebook tab, find said feature, turn it off then Saves... With no alternative solution anywhere.


- The first issue is... Cortana is not available in my country, I can't enable it no mater what I try...

- The second issue is that the mentioned "Notebook tab/glyph" isn't even there! When I search for that, all results points back to the fact that Cortana is not available in my country!!!

I'm on Windows 10 Home Single Language - Ver. 1803 - Build: 17134.407 | Logged in with my Microsoft Account.


What I don't understand is why these settings can't even be found in Settings... In fact, many of these Feature specific configs (is what I like to call them), can never be found there... why is that?!

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How to disable "pick up where you left off" when Cortana is disabled in your country?

Hi,

Pick up where I left off feature will display quick links in the Action Center so you can quickly jump back into your Microsoft Edge session and SharePoint documents after switching PCs.
If Cortana is not available on your country/region, we suggest that you change it to United States for a while and follow these steps:

• Click on the Cortana icon. Click on the notebook
  
  
  icon.
• Click on Pick up where I left off.
• Under Help me pick up where I left off option, toggle the slider to
  Off.
• Click on Save button.
• You will now see a Your settings have been updated message to confirm your change has been applied.
• Change again your country/region to Sweden.

Let us know if the steps above helped you to resolve the issue.

 

Dutch version Win10: Picks up where I left off....

Hello,

Pick up where I left off is one of Cortana's feature under the
Notebook tab. This will help Cortana remember what you were working on and searching for, so it's easy to get back to what you were doing. Since you want to disable this feature, we recommend that you change the current region set on your computer
to disable the feature. Here's how:

• Click the Start button and select the Settings
  icon.
• Choose Time & Language from the list.
• Select Region & language in the left pane of the window.
• Make sure that United States is set as your region.

Once done, you can go to Cortana's Notebook again and scroll down to find the
Pick up where I left off option. Toggle the switch to turn it off. Follow the steps above and change it back to original region.

Update us on how it goes.

 

'pick up where you left off' and password when the screen turns off

Hi Daniel,

Pick up where I left off is one of Cortana's feature under the
Notebook tab. This will help Cortana remember what you were working on and searching for, so it's easy to get back to what you were doing. To disable this feature, follow the steps below:

• To get to Cortana's Notebook, select the search box on the taskbar to open Cortana home, then select Notebook . It is the
  
  
  
  icon at the left side of Cortana home.
• Scroll down to find Pick up where I left off option.
• Click toggle key to turn off feature.

To disable the sign-in option after idle timeout, check out the following the steps:

• Go to Settings (gear icon) at the Cortana home.
• Select Accounts. Go to Sign-in options.
• Under Require sign-in, select Never from the dropdown menu.

Feel free to get back to us if there's anything else.