

The best thing is to remove onedrive after a FRESH INSTALL of windows, BEFORE you sync and restore your backups. WHY microsoft makes this so difficult, you have to ask them. The onedrive map in the map is annoying, but is not connected to onedrive anymore. Uninstall onedrive makes all your library paths local. Windows has several tools to fix onedrive paths that gets corrupted.īut those ONLY fix so you get onedrive in your library path again. (Numbers and letters that makes zero sense). You may get the error " no permission to change path", or " Cant find path because 234904234809239482. Voila, path is "user/Pictures", once again. Most of the time this is enough and you reboot.Īfter reboot, run a SFC /SCANNOW from powershell with administrator rights. Then open properties on each library like "Pictures", and choose " Change to default path". They are however a recommended source for win 10 solutions by microsoft) Link: (Please note, Howtogeek is not microsoft. There is a decent macro you can run from " Howtogeek" site, which is safe and fix SOME of the paths, not all. (I dont think they see that as a problem). That is a normal flaw with Onedrive ,which Microsoft still have not fixed. You might noticed that you have double "documents" path and some library path might be missing.

If you are like me, and dont want that unnecessary onedrive in your library path, you need to edit the registry AND change the location on each of the default library paths. Once removed, your paths works just like a normal library. The onedrive path in your file explorer is local if you uninstall onedrive. If you have an Office 365 subscription you’ve got access to a terabyte of space, and it works pretty well.One answers because Microsoft dont want you to remove it. Or You Could Use OneDrive, PerhapsĪlternatively, you could actually use OneDrive if you want. Note: If you’re using the Pro version of Windows, you’ll need to use a group policy fix to remove OneDrive from the File Explorer sidebar, but for Home users and if you just want this to stop popping up and annoying you at startup, uninstalling should be fine. Head into Settings (press Windows+I), click the “Apps” option, find Microsoft OneDrive under the “Apps & Features” section, and then click the “Uninstall” button. Rather than disable something you plan to never use, the nuclear option is to simply uninstall it. RELATED: How to Disable OneDrive and Remove It From File Explorer on Windows 10 Never Gonna Use OneDrive? You Can Just Uninstall It The next time you reboot your PC, that annoying OneDrive login window should be gone.
