Every time I open a link to a local file in OneNote 2016, I get this annoying popup:

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There used to be a setting in the Trust Center to disable this, but it no longer exists in Office 2016

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I also tried adding a DisableHyperlinkWarning regedit key, but that did not work. The asker of the linked question was not able to disable the warning with this approach either, so I assume this was removed in Office 2016 as well.

Is there any way for me to disable this security notice?


I had success following the registry key steps from this guide: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365legacy-mso_oapps/office-365onenote-security-notice-settings/a4f9120a-3c39-44fc-9c1f-b8f76fd79b00?auth=1

From the post:

  1. In the Registry Editor, locate the following subkey:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common
    
  2. On the menu bar, click EditNewKey and type Security and press Enter.

  3. Right click Security, then click NewDWORD (32-bit) Value and type DisableHyperlinkWarning and press Enter.
  4. Double click the above value, select Decimal and change the Value data to 1, then click OK.

The DisableHyperlinkWarning key value was added, but a comment below pointed out the trailing space accidentally being added to the end of the value name.

After I removed the space the popup stopped for me.