[CONNECTION Client 11.00.03.14] Disable Unread messages notification

All,

I'm preparing an update for our MicroStation users company wide which required CONNECTION Client 11.00.03.14. 
Since this update every time a user starts up they get a notification popup telling them they got x new notifications in their CONNECTION Client.

that comes from the unread activity feed 


Is there a way to turn off these notifications? I've followed the steps in the posts How do I stop notifications of updates to CONNECTION Client? - Licensing, Cloud and Web Services Forum - Licensing, Cloud and Web Services - Bentley Communities and Installation - Silent - Licensing, Cloud and Web Services Wiki - Licensing, Cloud and Web Services - Bentley Communities and adjusted the registry keys to set "ShowDesktopNotifications"  to False

Which did get rid of the "New updates available" popup, but not the new notifications one.  
The weird thing being that when I check my settings it'll show that " Show Desktop Notifications"  is still checked. Did this registry key become obsolete (I'm sure setting this key worked on older versions)?



I've also tried setting the "PopupIntervalMinutes" value to multiple values such as -1, 0, or extremely long in the Program Files\Common Files\Bentley Shared\CONNECTION Client\Bentley.Connect.Client.exe.config file hoping it'd seize giving the popups, to now avail.

Thanks,
Remy.