Windows 10: OneDrive : Puzzled and frustrated

MS WINDOWS 10 HOME 64-BIT 10.0.19041

I'll admit I dislike OneDrive intensely and wish MS had never bundled it in Win10 but I hope I will feel differently if I maybe understood it better.
I have scanned some of your tutorials but I am still confused by the following :
1) Although I have unlinked OneDrive from the machine, opening any file or folder in explorer reveals a path such as "C:\Users|MyName\OneDrive\Documents\*****". Why is OneDrive in this path when I it is unlinked and I have no OneDrive folder?
2) When I rebooted for updates, OneDrive had become live again and I had to repeat the unlink. Does this always occur?
3) Now the notification icon has disappeared despite being turned on in settings so I don't know whether OneDrive is live or not! How do I restore the icon please?
4) If OneDrive was running continuously it seems to me that I would have all my docs and photos on my HDD twice! Once in usual folders and once in OneDrive folder. This seems ridiculously inefficient. Am I mistaken or what? Any opinions?
5) On my previous 8.1 laptop I used Google Backup & Sync which worked perfectly and instantly in the background. Are there any known problems with this is Win10 ?
Thanks for any replies, John

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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.

 

Microsoft Classic Jigsaw Puzzles - How to re-look at solved puzzles

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You can try the step below to check the last solved puzzle.

Method: Check last played game.

1. Open Jigsaw Puzzle.
   
2. Search for My account and you will see images below
   My account, click on the image and all your last solved puzzle will be there.
   

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Microsoft Casual Games Community.

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Sharing User created Puzzles

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Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forums.



The limit of 4 custom puzzles is due to the UserPuzzles folder being full. To add more than 4 custom puzzles, I suggest you to try the steps listed below and check if it works.

• Open File Explorer and navigate to the following location:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\UserPuzzles\UserPuzzlesPack

Note: UserName is your username.

• Delete or Rename the folder
  UserPuzzles inside UserPuzzlesPack.
• Delete or Rename the file:
  puzzles.xml
• Exit File Explorer and try creating the custom puzzles again.

If you’re speaking about moving the user puzzle files, you may copy it to any desired location. For more information, I suggest you to go through
Microsoft Casual Games FAQ and post the query in
the Casual Games community.



Hope it helps.

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