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

Shawn,

Okay I reinstalled it on my test bench so as not to disturb my main setup and to start off fresh like I did before, and so pretty quickly I found where I saw that Disable option.
It was not in the Programs & Features no, but remembering what my flow was it was when I went to Task Manager to stop a particular driver from auto installing I had seen it in within the Start Up options to disable it and is where I had done it, here's screenshot I just made doing it again on build 10041




Anyway, I don't want to do it that way with Disabled and never paid attention to what that really did, but the other day instead found out how to ''Uninstall'' it as mentioned using the bat I posted in post #3

 

I used the bat that you posted endeaver and shawn's method and it is now gone. When I only ran you bat file it left it in the navigator bar. When it goes final I will keep it. It is already available to download at one of the favorite places.

 

Ah, ok. That's for the OneDrive system icon responsible for keeping OneDrive synced.

 

..and that particular startup listing from my screenshot above is not there, gone, after the post 3# bat is run and OneDrive is uninstalled. I tracked all the file/registry changes it makes with the bat uninstall, and it does uninstall it; again though if an update or whatever reinstalls it, it takes seconds to uninstall it again.
I'll keep an eye on it out of curiosity anyway.

@ Gary, yes it's true it will stay in the navigation pane, and that you can remove with the tutorials reg info; I left mine there though since I don't mind that listing as long as OneDrive itself is uninstalled.

 

Thanks for the info, I just downloaded it from MajorGeeks and re-installed it.

 

What did you re-install from MajorGeeks? Whats at MajorGeeks?

 

Please do not use third-party (unknown quality) sites/sources to install Microsoft software.
All Microsoft software is available through Official sources. For OneDrive: Welcome to Microsoft OneDrive

 

Gary,

That would have most likely been the OneDrive Desktop app. If so, that will not install or do anything since OneDrive is already fully integrated in Windows 10.

 

It did install and is working as it should. When performed both of the procedures it removed one drive and then I found it using task manager and completely removed it. I thought that maybe I should not have compltely removed it so I happened upon that site so I downloaded it and it did instal perfectly. As a side note, they also have the Windows 10 Preview there as well but I would only get that from MS.

 

After installing Windows 10 build 10130 today to check it out, nice.
I noticed after about 5 minutes I was prompted that One Drive was installing itself again after the last build where I had uninstalled it.

I used the information back in Post #3 to uninstall it again and it worked fine; I decided to leave it's folder showing in my navigation view pane for the heck of it, instead of removing it as per the tutorial.

 

awesome stuff work well on my pc thank you

 

Please help, I've just run this on 2 Windows 10 machines and now when I try to start explorer either from shortcut or Win+E I get the following error - Windows cannot find ". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

I've run a system restore on machine to sort the problem, the other had system restore disabled *Sad

Any help greatly appreciated

 

Hello tjrayner, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

It sounds like something interfered with the .bat file restarting explorer.

See if you are able to restart explorer using Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) instead.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...a.html#option4

 

I've rebooted the PC, explorer itself runs as I have the desktop etc fine. If I type C:\ in the search bar it opens. It's just Win + E or opening File Explorer directly when I get the error

Thanks

 

The tutorial wouldn't cause that since it will only add or remove OneDrive.

See if running a SFC /SCANNOW command may help.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html