This is a pretty simple hack and as long as you stick to the instructions, you shouldn’t have any problems. Standard warning: Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable. RELATED: How to Backup and Restore the Windows Registry If you have Windows 10 Home, you can edit the Windows Registry to remove the OneDrive folder from the File Explorer’s left sidebar. You can also do it this way on Windows Pro or Enterprise, but the Group Policy Editor method is a better solution for cleanly disabling OneDrive. We recommend uninstalling OneDrive instead. RELATED: Using Group Policy Editor to Tweak Your PC Home Users: Remove the OneDrive Folder From File Explorer by Editing the Registry Update: You no longer have to edit your PC’s registry to do this on Windows 10 Home. The “DisableFileSync” and “DisableFileSyncNGSC” registry settings that worked on Windows 8.1 no longer works on Windows 10. If you use OneDrive you should let it run in the background and at start up, and simply contend yourself with it no longer showing up in the sidebar.There doesn’t seem to be an associated registry setting you can modify to get the same effect as the group policy setting on Windows 10. Bear in mind that if you exit it and prevent it from running, any syncing that’s done through OneDrive will be stopped. If you want to quit the app, you will have to do so from the system tray. If you want to prevent it from running automatically when you boot your system, you’re going to have to remove it from the startup folder. OneDrive should no longer appear in the sidebar.Įven though OneDrive no longer appears in the sidebar, it is still running in the background. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\.įind the System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree key and edit its value to 0. In the search bar type in ‘regedit’ (without the quote marks) to open the registry editor. A registry edit is what it takes to make it go away.
Much like you would have Dropbox added as a location to the sidebar in older versions of Windows, OneDrive exists the same way with one major difference you can’t get rid of it, at least not with a simple UI switch or check box. As part of this integration, OneDrive is now a quick access location in the sidebar in File Explorer. It’s no surprise that Microsoft is aggressively pushing all its products and services on to users in this operating system Bing, Cortana, Edge, Bing news, Bing Sports, etc. Microsoft has integrated OneDrive in Windows 10 so that it’s hard to avoid.
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