Windows 10: Strange automatic Office 2016/365 Bug On Windows Login

Hi, I have been using Office 2016 Pro Plus at home during lockdown. I received it through my university's IT portal and activated by logging in to their VPN (they had instructions for this - this is all legit). Everything worked seamlessly for over a year, but now I'm getting some very odd behavior:

In an apparently random subset of times (about 1 in 4 or 5) after I wake up my Windows 10 Pro PC from sleep or turn it on (i.e. on random Windows log-ins), Microsoft Office 2016 Powerpoint turns itself on, this is followed by the 'About' settings window from Windows, and then many (between 4 and 20) internet tabs prompting me to login into Office365 pop up in my web browser. Again all of this happens all on its own, and on seemingly random windows logins. I can close all those windows and everything is OK, so this is just more annoying than anything else, particularly because I can not seem to find a solution for it.

I checked and I do not have Office365 installed on this machine (I uninstalled some parts of it that came automatically with Windows). I also completely uninstalled Office 2016 and reinstalled it from my university's website, but that didn't help either. Later I found this article that seemed to be quite related to my issue: https://thegeekpage.com/solved-microsoft-office-keeps-asking-me-to-sign-in-on-windows-10/ and followed all the instructions (including the regedit ones, though not the Outlook ones because I do not have Outlook installed on this machine). Nothing fixes it! Has anyone else seen and successfully quashed this annoying bug?



Thank you!

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