Windows 10: Windows 10 1903 - Task View Timeline / Activity History not populating

I have a client who is finding their Task View is not populating with recent document history/activity.

The client runs a volume licensed copy of Office 2019. Activity history has been working fine until recently.

Some apps such as Paint will still correctly populate the Activities section.



Repairs that have already been tried:

• Toggling "Let Windows collect my activities from this PC" & "Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud" along with all similar options found throughout the Settings, including the "Shared Experiences" section.
• Re-authenticating the live Microsoft account to "Fix" the account (as phrased by Windows Settings)
• Amending the registry, creating three keys EnableActivityFeed, PublishUserActivities, and UploadUserActivities as recommended elsewhere.
• Amending group policies such as "Allow publishing of User Activities", "Enables Activity Feed" and more.
• Stopping the relevant service, deleting any "ActivitiesCache.db"-related files in AppData\Local\ConnectedDevicesPlatform\ and restarting.

Despite these efforts, the client can work all day on various Office documents without a single population of the activities section of Task View.


Any advise would be very much appreciated.

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Timeline (after April feature patch): How do I see it? It is enabled, but there is nothing (Task View)

"Activity history" in Settings has both options checked (collect from this PC, sync to cloud).

According to a webpage that explains the new "Timeline" it should be in the "Task View". However, when I click on the Task View button I get - the Task View (as it always was). Looking at collected activity data for my account on microsoft's website shows
a lot of entries.

Where is the Timeline view hiding???

For a feature that is listed as one of only four new main features of the April patch it is VERY well hidden!

 

Timeline Activity not showing up

The timeline activity just won't show up on the timeline window. I always get "Use your PC more for activities."

I have enabled the settings required for timeline in Privacy > Activity History:

Let Windows collect my activities

Let Windows Sync my activities

Show activities from accounts

I also tried using regedit to add these variables in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System

• EnableActivityFeed
• PublishUserActivities
• UploadUserActivities

All the variables are set to 1, and are DWORD values. (as stated in this article Timeline feature not working in Windows 10), to no effect.

Any more troubleshooting steps I can go through?

 

Task bar & task view

Hi Mad,

Is it your intention of turn off Task View and Activity History completely? If so, here are the steps:

https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/turn-off-task-view...

Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised
on the site before you decide to download and install it.