Windows 10: Auto Save Desktop to OneDrive or This PC in Windows 10

How to: Auto Save Desktop to OneDrive or This PC in Windows 10


Information In Windows 10, you can choose to save your desktop, OneDrive or This PC by default.

This tutorial will show you how to auto save your desktop to either OneDrive or This PC for your account in Windows 10.


Warning This tutorial is no longer valid starting with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update.

See the new method in the tutorial below instead now:

*Arrow Turn On or Off Documents, Pictures, and Desktop Folder Protection with OneDrive in Windows 10





Here's How:

1. Right click or press and hold on the OneDrive icon in the taskbar notification area, click/tap on the menu (3 dots) button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)

*note If OneDrive is currently not running to show this icon, then run: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe



2. Click/tap on the Auto save tab, choose to save Desktop to either OneDrive or This PC only, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn


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Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

This is Windows 10 Pro... Enterprise is an entirely different deal and I'm sure I won't have problems that route, but I'm not forking over more $ to dipshit developers. The only thing I can think of is un-linking my Office 365 accounts within Office, but that defeats the purpose of accessing the files ONLINE and managing them from there. I have two alumni accounts, not a single problem in Windows 7/8 until M$shit devs decided to integrate Onedrive. I've deleted, renamed, set read-only to "msosync.exe," ... but windows continues to add it again and again, and NOW I just noticed it's now linking to groove.exe, instead of onedrive. Sooo fn annoying!



Onedrive on Windows 10 is not an 'app' it is integrated. Plus I don't fool around with the Windows Store thoughtless developer child bullshit. Windows Store ought to be completely removed from the Windows platform all together. Also I do not intend to completely remove Onedrive, it defeats the purpose... the purpose is to REMOVE it from Windows Explorer navigation and startup.

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

[/quote] Click to expand... Sorry, but I think you're confused and keep referring to Onedrive. There is a big difference between the consumer version of Onedrive business O365 version. I do not have the consumer version of Onedrive installed... it is Onedrive for Business. Also, this script is for "Onedrive" .... not Onedrive for Business. Thanks anyway.

OneDrive (for Business) built-in Windows 10 differences?

No thanks for providing a non-rant version. I ought to recruit about 20 million people and walk down to Microsoft headquarters and do them in. Tired of Microsoft forcing their childish development skills on the masses.

 

Auto Save Documents to OneDrive or This PC in Windows 10


There is one issue with this. After turning this on, the Documents and Picture shortcuts in Code:

Code:

This PC/Navigation Pane

leads to Code:

Code:

OneDrive/Documents

or Code:

Code:

OneDrive/Pictures.

But when you turn this off i.e. when you change it to This PC again. The link doesn't change back to Code:

Code:

%Userprofile%/Documents.

It still points to Code:

Code:

OneDrive/Documents

.
Plus, turning this off also messed up with auto screenshot save.



The screenshot above was saved in Code:

Code:

%Userprofile%/Pictures

instead of Code:

Code:

OneDrive/Pictures

. The whole system is messed up completely. @Brink Please give a fix. I have tired registry at Code:

Code:

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/MyComputer

but modifying it doesn't help.

 

How to make MY PC mine?

There are options to have these below to autosave to OneDrive or "This PC".

• How to Auto Save Desktop to OneDrive or This PC in Windows 10
• How to Auto Save Documents to OneDrive or This PC in Windows 10
• How to Auto Save Pictures to OneDrive or This PC in Windows 10