Windows 10: How to completely 100% remove OneDrive and any connection to it?

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  1. GVarhalmi Win User

    How to completely 100% remove OneDrive and any connection to it?


    My PC does not have OneDrive installed on it, anywhere, yet buried in my user profile there it is with all of my files, I hate it and I do not want my files in the cloud ever. The issue is a few weeks ago, I came across an issue with saving an Excel file and it defaulted to a OneDrive save folder. That got me to investigate where it is saving it; low and behold in my User folder I have a nested OneDrive folder that is now the default save location. I want everything locally saved and I can manually control what and where I back up my files but to my surprise I cannot move those files or remove

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    GVarhalmi, Feb 14, 2025
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  2. 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.
     
    FordGT90Concept, Feb 14, 2025
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  3. stickie Win User
    Remove OneDrive

    Hi .... wish to remove OneDrive from fresh install W10.....
    have uninstalled it from inside Control Panel but am unnerved to find a OneDrive folder lurking in my username folder, which contains some 10GB predominantly a clone of my Desktop ... please, please could someone provide the steps necessary to completely remove it ..... thanks in advance ..... Alan D Kerr

    File sharing and storage made simple
     
    stickie, Feb 14, 2025
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  4. Freezer Win User

    How to completely 100% remove OneDrive and any connection to 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.
     
    Freezer, Feb 14, 2025
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