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Disable OneDrive Everywhere in Windows and Apps Completely

This document provides steps to completely disable and remove OneDrive from Windows 10. It involves using the Local Group Policy Editor or Registry Editor to disable OneDrive, uninstalling the OneDrive app, deleting OneDrive folders and files, and removing OneDrive registry keys to fully remove it from the system.

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Disable OneDrive Everywhere in Windows and Apps Completely

This document provides steps to completely disable and remove OneDrive from Windows 10. It involves using the Local Group Policy Editor or Registry Editor to disable OneDrive, uninstalling the OneDrive app, deleting OneDrive folders and files, and removing OneDrive registry keys to fully remove it from the system.

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Disable OneDrive Everywhere in Windows and Apps

Completely
1. Press Win + R keyboard accelerator to open Run
dialog box.
2. Type GPedit.msc and hit Enter or OK to open Local
Group Policy Editor.
3. Navigate to Local Computer Policy -> Computer
Configuration -> Administrative Templates -
> Windows Components -> OneDrive.
4. In the right pane, double click on policy
named Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file
storage.
5. Select the Enabled radio button.
6. Click or tap OK when done.
That’s it. OneDrive icon is hidden from Explorer, and
OneDrive app is completely disabled and prevented from
running, and access or work with files on OneDrive from
any desktop apps or modern apps is blocked. For
example:
 Can’t access OneDrive from the OneDrive app and
file picker.
 Windows Store apps can’t access OneDrive using the
WinRT API.
 OneDrive doesn’t appear in the navigation pane in
File Explorer.
 OneDrive files aren’t kept in sync with the cloud.
 Can’t automatically upload photos and videos from
the camera roll folder.
 Sign out and sign in again, or restart the computer.
Registry Settings
The policy above is actually set a setting in Registry,
which is useful for people who prefer to use Registry
Editor. In addition, Windows 10 Home does not come with
Group Policy Editor too.
Here’s how to use Registry Editor to turn off OneDrive
everywhere completely:
1. Press Win + R keyboard accelerator to open Run
dialog box.
2. Type RegEdit.exe and hit Enter or OK to open
Registry Editor.
3. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Micro
soft\Windows
4. Right click on Windows and select New -> Key.
Name the new key as OneDrive.
Note: If OneDrive key already exists, skip this step.
5. Right click on OneDrive registry key, and select New -
> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the new value name
as DisableFileSyncNGSC
6. Set the data for DisableFileSyncNGSC registry value
as 1.

Note: DisableFileSync registry value only works in


Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and does
not work in Windows 10.
7. Close Registry Editor.
8. Sign out and sign in again, or restart the computer.
Hide and Remove OneDrive from Navigation Pane of
Windows Explorer
If you just want to remove the OneDrive entry in the
navigation pane (also known as side panel or folder tree)
in the File Explorer, or the OneDrive folder still exists in
File Explorer after disabling OneDrive.
Complete Remove and Uninstall OneDrive
It’s impossible to manually uninstall and remove OneDrive
in Windows 10 by the step-by-step guide below. Run the
commands to be executed in the process below in
an Administrator Command Prompt.
Uninstall OneDrive
1. Terminate any process of OneDrive by running the
following command:
taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe
2. Uninstall OneDrive app by running one of the
following command:
In 32-bit Windows 10 (x86):
%SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe
/uninstall
In 64-bit Windows 10 (x64):
%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe
/uninstall
One you ran the above command, OneDrive desktop app
is uninstalled completely and cleanly. Most of the time, no
progress bar nor confirmation dialog is shown. However,
when you search for OneDrive, the app no longer be
found.
Cleaning and Removing OneDrive Remnants
However, as OneDrive is a cloud storage service which is
dealing with user data, there are remnants and leftovers
from OneDrive app that are still available on the system as
uninstallation does not remove user data, most
prominently been the OneDrive folder. Run the commands
below to clean up those remnants by deleting OneDrive
related folders and their contents:
Important
Make sure that the following folders no longer contain any
user data before proceeding with the following commands.
rd "%UserProfile%\OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /Q
/S
rd "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "C:\OneDriveTemp" /Q /S
Delete and Remove OneDrive in File Explorer Folder
Tree Registry Key
OneDrive has registry keys which add itself to the
Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 10. After
uninstalling OneDrive, these registry keys are orphaned,
and can be removed.
REG Delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f REG
Delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}"
/f

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