Windows 10: OneDrive icons

Why do my desktop icons show the little brown onedrive square in the bottom corner of each when the application itself has been disabled and uninstalled?Is microsoft pulling a fast one on me and stealing my data when I have explicitly gone out of my way to stop that security breach?Why is microsoft always underhanded and breaching peoples security by default?It is bad enough that it had to be stopped in multiple ways to begin with. Have you gone and made it worse? Is there a new underhanded theft of data being run on my system by microsoft that I am unaware of?Why has microsoft gone from bei

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OneDrive folder icon changed to plain

Hi,

Thank you for replying.

I understand your concern and suggest you to Unlink OneDrive and run OneDrive setup
again and check. Here is the steps:

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  Right-click the white OneDrive cloud icon in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar.
  
  
  
  (You might need to click the Show hidden icons arrow next to the notification area to see the
  OneDrive icon.)
  
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  Click Settings, and then click Unlink.
  
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  Follow the steps in the Welcome to OneDrive wizard to set up OneDrive.
  

Do notify us if the issue still persists and we'll be glad to help.

 

OneDrive Icon

Thank you for your response. To move the OneDrive icon, you can follow the steps below:

• Click Start button, then select Settings.
• Go to Personalization.
• On Perosonalization, click Taskbar.
• Under Notification area, click Select which icons appear on the taskbar.
  
• Turn off Microsoft OneDrive.

We will wait for the outcome.

 

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.