I have found references to this issue in answers to other questions but not one of them contains the slightest useful information as they all seem to require me to log in to servers, administration sites and authentication services that I have no knowledge of and have never installed.
The only Microsoft services I know of and use (occasionally) are Word 2016, Excel 2016 and Office 365. I have never managed to figure out the difference between Office 2016 and Office 365. All I know is I can use Excel and Word locally and use my credentials to log in to some sort of portal site. And that I get billed every month, of course.
I am running Windows 7 and I am fine with that. The problem is this: over the past couple of weeks I am constantly seeing error messages popping up in the taskbar about Microsoft Sharepoint restarting. I have never installed Sharepoint. I see no services on my computer related to it. I see nothing in my startup config that could be starting this. I have never seen these messages before. They are a huge annoyance. Especially since it has taken about an hour just to figure out how to get to this forum (reconfiguring an ancient hotmail account because it won't let me log in with my onmicrosoft account, reauthenticating, changing password, agreeing to privacy statements, etc etc etc, just to post this question.
I have never used or installed Sharepoint. I have no plans to. I don't even know what it does and I am not interested in finding out. I just want it OFF my bleeping computer. And I see no way of arriving at that point.
Would be very grateful if anyone could provide any assistance
Thanks
Charles