Windows 10: Remove iCloud Photos from Windows File Explorer Sidebar

Good Afternoon,


I recently switched over from OSX to Windows 10 and in an attempt to migrate all of my photos from iCloud to my Pictures library on my new computer I installed iCloud onto my new computer. After one photo was migrated from iCloud I decided to just download a backup of my photos and get them over to my new computer that way.


I currently have three iCloud Photos icons in my sidebar that I have spent hours trying to remove I turned off the option in iCloud to sync photos. Every solution that I have come across requires going into the Registry Editor and deleting a specific item, which after searching for it I don't have that specific item. I am not sure if mine is labeled differently than what I found the forums were a couple years old.

Does anybody have a step by step that I can follow to make those icons go away?


Thanks,

:)

 

Remove iCloud Photos from Devices and Drives View in File Explorer

thank you for this soln gogreen, much appreciated! Here is a quick summary for others if interested -

Reference:

• rANa'S Blog - How to remove iCloud Photo from My Computer (9/21/14)

Steps:

1. Open regedit (Win+R, "regedit")
2. Enter key in address bar
3. Deprecate key
   • Opt A. - delete
   • Opt B. - rename something different (e.g. prefix with "_")
4. Close and re-open to observe result

Key:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{F0D63F85-37EC-4097-B30D-61B4A8917118}

thanks!

 

How Do I Remove iCloud Photos Folders from Sidebar?

Hello all,

After the latest update to the now Windows Store-exclusive iCloud app (first Nvidia with their Control Panel and now this...ugh), I have multiple iCloud Photos folders in my Explorer sidebar and my OCD is going wild. Does anyone know how I'd go about removing them? The only solutions I've found online have been for removing the folder as shown in pic 1 (edits to reg under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\xxxx), whereas my issue is removing the folders shown in pic 2.

Pic 1: Not my Issue




Pic 2: My Issue




Running 1909.

Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

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Never mind! Figured it out. Had to experiment and edit with a few different entries associated with the phrase "iCloud Photos".

 

Remove iCloud Photos from Devices and Drives View in File Explorer

I've customized the look of File Explorer (thanks to the tutorial). Now, how do I remove iCloud Photos from the Devices and Drives view in file Explorer?