Windows 10: Add or Remove OneDrive from Navigation Pane in Windows 10

How to: Add or Remove OneDrive from Navigation Pane in Windows 10

How to Add or Remove OneDrive in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 10


Information In Windows 10, you can easily save your files to OneDrive and get to them from any device, like your PC, tablet, or phone.

OneDrive is free online storage at OneDrive.com that comes with your Microsoft account. It’s like an extra hard drive that’s available from any of the devices you use. You no longer need to email files to yourself or carry around (and possibly lose) a USB flash drive. Instead, whether you’re on your laptop and working on a presentation, viewing photos from your last family vacation on your new tablet, or on your phone reviewing your shopping list, you can get to your files in OneDrive.

Getting started with OneDrive is easy. You can add files already on your PC to OneDrive by either copying them over or moving them from your PC. When you save new files, you can choose to save them to OneDrive so you can get to them from any device and share them with other people. And, if your PC has a built-in camera, you can automatically save copies of the photos in your camera roll to OneDrive, so you'll always have a backup.


This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the OneDrive folder from the navigation pane of File Explorer for only your account without disabling OneDrive in Windows 10.



Note If you have Show all folders turned on, then OneDrive will still show until Show all folders is turned off.


EXAMPLE: Add or Remove OneDrive from Navigation Pane









Here's How:

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}

System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree DWORD

1 = add
0 = remove

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}

(add) = add
(delete) = remove


1. Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Add OneDrive to Navigation Pane of Current User
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Add_OneDrive_to_Navigation_Pane.reg

Download

3. To Remove OneDrive from Navigation Pane of Current User
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Remove_OneDrive_from_Navigation_Pane.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. When finished, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


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... by searching the web with this search term:

how to remove the onedrive icon from file explorer

Here are some examples from responsible sources:

How to remove OneDrive from File Explorer on Windows 10

Add or Remove OneDrive from Navigation Pane in Windows 10

How to remove OneDrive icon from Windows 10 File Explorer

 

How to get Windows 10 file explorer navigation pane to have same layout as it had in windows 7 and 8.0?

Miek,

All libraries entries are just shortcuts to folders.

If you want to get rid of the Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos entries under This PC you can. See

This PC 'Folders' - Add or Remove in Windows 10 - TenForums

You can also remove the entry for OneDrive -
Add or Remove from Navigation Pane - TenForums

Denis

 

Glad you like it Chuck. *Smile

 

Shawn,
I've searched here and haven't found it yet, but do you have a ditty to Totally uninstall OneDrive from 10 yet?

I found this and used it, it seemed to work as it's gone.
On some major updates/upgrades it gets reinstalled, and when it does I just run it again.

Thank you.


@echo off
cls

echo Closing OneDrive process.
echo.
taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe > NUL 2>&1
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 > NUL 2>&1

echo Uninstalling OneDrive.
echo.
%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 > NUL 2>&1

echo Removing OneDrive leftovers.
echo.
rd %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive /Q /S > NUL 2>&1
rd C:\OneDriveTemp /Q /S > NUL 2>&1
rd %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive /Q /S > NUL 2>&1
rd "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft OneDrive" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1

pause


Code: Update Edit 8/7/2015 Below is an updated version of this above script to work for more builds. fwiw, I give full credit for both scripts to the original source (melerix)[/quote]

@echo off
cls

set x86="%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe"
set x64="%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe"

echo Closing OneDrive process.
echo.
taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe > NUL 2>&1
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > NUL 2>&1

echo Uninstalling OneDrive.
echo.
if exist %x64% (
%x64% /uninstall
) else (
%x86% /uninstall
)
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > NUL 2>&1

echo Removing OneDrive leftovers.
echo.
rd "%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1
rd "C:\OneDriveTemp" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1
rd "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1
rd "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft OneDrive" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1

pause



Code: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This next part is like Brink has already posted in this tutorial, and so I've left it out of the script. I personally like Brink's way because of the options to leave the Folder showing - which I like to. And so I only post the rest of the script just as an fyi: (remove pause above and leave only the one at this end if used) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ echo Removing OneDrive from the Explorer Side Panel. echo. REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f > NUL 2>&1 REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f > NUL 2>&1 pause[/quote]

 

I haven't tested this below from Windows 8.1 yet, but you might also see how it'll work to remove OneDrive integration in Windows 10.

OneDrive Integration in Windows 8.1 - Enable or Disable


Update: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...dows-10-a.html

 

Thanks for the reply Shawn.

I did read through that on Eight before I had posted. Not that's it's a big deal but I also didn't want to log on to my MS account to enable or disable OneDrive though; at first I did disable it locally, but then I just wanted to remove OneDrive completely right off with one click, and so far still it seems it has. I did notice right after I had first did it tried to reinstall itself or so I thought, so I ran it again and this time it hasn't come back. Hey, it may very well I don't know, and if it does I will come back to report if it does.

I just wanted to make sure you didn't already have a tutorial written on that bat file so far.

Thank you

 

No problem. If you ever run a SFC scan, you would most likely need to run the .bat file in your post again though.

 

Seems to me if Onedrive is integrated it would be listed in windows features turn on or off.

 

It would be nice if it was included in Windows Features, but it's not so far. It was the same way in Windows 8.1, but you could still manually remove OneDrive integration.

OneDrive is suppose to be even more integrated by the time Windows 10 reaches RTM, so it'll be interesting to see how easy it'll be to remove OneDrive at that time.

 

Thanks for the data, I think I will keep it though at least thru the preview.

 

@ ThrashZone, I did see it there, and there Was an option to Disable it, which I did! click that option to do so. Later I then decided I wanted to remove it completely, and that's when I ran the bat.
(EDIT a day later - I should have said I saw a disable option in TaskManager> Startup, and not in Features)

@ Shawn, yes I realize even when I update it there's a good chance maybe it will re-install itself, or even SFC and whatever else, no problem since the one click bat to run is pretty quick and easy; and so if I ever see OneDrive aboard again, I will re-run the bat. I'm curious to see how it holds, especially on the RTM, but here too if they make it to persist, I'm sure a way will be developed to remove it since many people just don't want anything to do with any Cloud type service.

Thank you.

 

Are you sure? I double checked, but I don't see OneDrive listed in Windows Features in build 10041.

Windows Features - Turn On or Off in Windows 8

 

Yes I am sure, however I don't remember on what specific screen location or pane that it gave me that option though if that helps, but it was there, somewhere! *Confused

I don't see it afterwards because the program is un-installed now, but yes it was there and at first I was happy they gave me the option to disable it and I did, but then decided I just wanted it gone. Maybe if needed I could fire up my test bench and reinstall to find where it was for you; boy now you have me questioning myself *Think but my memory from a few days ago is definitely that I Know I Saw The Option And I Did Click To Disable it!

I'm going to go over to find it, unless you find it first..

 

You could uninstall OneDrive in build 9879 through add/remove programs but not since then. Perhaps you were thinking of that... How to Uninstall OneDrive completely in Windows 10 - Microsoft Community