Windows 10: OneDrive no longer appears in the navigation pane of File Explorer

I am running Windows 10 Pro x64, 21H2. Microsoft OneDrive came with Windows 10 and has an entry in Programs and Features in the Control Panel. OneDrive from the Microsoft Store is NOT installed. For brevity therefore, Microsoft OneDrive is hereafter referred to as simply OneDrive. The basic problem is that OneDrive no longer appears in the navigation pane of File Explorer and I don’t know how to get it back. Let me explain. For reasons I won’t go into here because I don’t think they are relevant, I disabled OneDrive using the Group Policy Editor gpedit, foll

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OneDrive missing from Windows Explorer navigation pane

When I first cleaned installed Windows 10 v1809 on my machine I applied a Group Policy setting for OneDrive to Prevent the Usage of OneDrive for File Storage to ENABLED. Of course, that would remove the OneDrive from the left side navigation pane within Windows File Explorer. But now, I set the Group Policy back to NOT CONFIGURED, rebooted the machine and the OneDrive is still missing from the the left side of the Windows File Explorer navigation pane as shown in my image. I even performed the command GPUPDATE /FORCE.

My laptop is a standalone, not part of a Domain.

I tried all the things listed from the article below but with no luck. I also was able to sign in with my OneDrive account and that was all fine and OneDrive appeared on the File Explorer pane. But once I UNLINKED my account from OneDrive, the OneDrive was still missing.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-b74545c7f4da

Even if no Group Policies are set, and even NOT signing into OneDrive, by default, the OneDrive icon should still appear on the left side navigation pane when launching Windows File Explorer.

And suggestions?

My guess is to recreate my user profile, but I don't really want to do that now.

 

How can I remove onedrive from navigation pane of file explorer?

I have two one drives on my laptop (Windows Pro 10 64 bit). I deleted one account (one drive-Leverage Proactive Deliverable) from my laptop, but it still appears on navigation pane of file explorer.

How can I remove it from navigation pane of file explorer?

I follow on below link but my registry doesn't have "{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" under "CLSID". How can I fix it?

How to Disable OneDrive and Remove It From File Explorer on Windows 10

 

Restore onedrive to file explorer navigation pane

Hi Eldair, I am Paulo and I'd like to help.

Try the option in this tutorial link and see if that enables OneDrive again on your navigation pane

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-or-remove-one...

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