Windows 10: Disable OneDrive and keep things organized

Hello,


after my previous question https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unsync-documents-from-onedrive/56d61576-a263-4176-b47c-9a4c03ed8706 I am still not quite sure how to proceed, and in the meantime decided to not use OneDrive altogether, so let me just rephrase it here: I would like to

1. Disable OneDrive,
2. Have everything that's saved in there be in the local storage on my pc,
3. Have the OneDrive versions of Documents, Photos etc. merged with their local counterparts,
4. Make sure that nothing ever gets saved to OneDrive again.

How can I achieve that?

:)

 

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.

 

Disable OneDrive

Thanks for your suggestion but redundancy in a forum is inherent. Just like making suggestions to other users who have 20 years experience with online forums. *Wink

 

Disable OneDrive


I thought I had made this clear already:

• I use the same MS account on each W10TP machine, real or virtual
• All W10TP machines are single boot
• The location of OneDrive folder on each machine is exactly the same, on real machines E:\Users\\OneDrive, on virtual machines C:\Users\\OneDrive
• Location of OneDrive folder is irrelevant having nothing to do with this issue
• Sync enabled or disabled is irrelevant having nothing to do with this issue
• Issue can be reproduced for 100% sure in all my installations whatever folder location or sync settings have been used simply by killing the Explorer.exe process and relaunching it which will automatically present the OneDrive first run splash screen

I cannot make this any clearer.