In the new “operating system” under the name Windows 10, many have understood the obscure OneDrive service, tied to the standard “Explorer”, and also constantly hanging in the background process tree, which, according to many users, significantly slows down both the system and the Internet connections. Therefore, almost everyone is wondering about how to disable OneDrive in Windows 10. We will understand the simplest methods to disable and the appropriateness of such actions.
What is OneDrive?
As for the service itself, it is not new. Almost all users of any version of Windows encountered it.
At its core, this is the so-called “cloud” storage in which user files are stored. It in the "top ten" replaced the SkyDrive service, which was present in Windows 8, and even earlier it was known under the general name of a complex of Internet services and Windows Live services. But let's look at this service from the other side. How to disable OneDrive in Windows 10 if such a service is not used or is simply not needed? Nothing complicated here. There are several options for this.
How to disable OneDrive in Windows 10 through Group Policy settings?
For the simplest disconnection of this component of the system, you should use the change in the local group policy settings.
The editor is called by the standard gpedit.msc command, which is entered either on the command line or in the Run section, which corresponds to the combination Win + R.
In the computer configuration, go to the administrative template section and use the system components section with the current system configuration settings . In the right window, the data synchronization parameter corresponding to the OneDrive section is simply selected, where the prohibition parameter is set as the settings, followed by saving the changes to the configuration.
How to disable OneDrive Windows 10 sync through the registry?
The situation with the registry is somewhat more complicated. The fact is that changing any parameter is not automatically saved even when exiting. Therefore, before editing, you should first make a backup.
If you consider the issue of how to disable OneDrive in Windows 10 in the registry editor, you should go into it using the regedit command, introduced according to the principle described above.
Here you will have to use the Software section located in the HKEY (LOCAL MACHINE) branch , then (again) find the Policies group policy settings menu, and then go through the Microsoft - Windows tree to the OneDrive section (the registry will indicate the SkyDrive service if it is installed simply update). On the right there is a window with the main keys and entries. In it, you need to right-click to call the submenu and create a DWORD parameter called DisableFileSync, which is assigned the value of one ("1"). It remains only to reboot the system (note, as mentioned above, saving will be required only when setting the main parameter, and not when exiting the registry editor).
Disabling OneDrive completely
In principle, if you pursue a goal related to the problem of how to completely disable OneDrive in Windows 10, you should uninstall it. It should be understood that it will be impossible to return the service even when rolling back (restoring the system) to the state checkpoint. In this case, only a complete reinstallation of Windows can help.
So, first we complete the OneDrive process through the “Task Manager” (but better through the command line with the entry “taskkill” - space - “/ f / im” - space “OneDrive.exe” (all without hyphens and quotes), because in some cases the standard method of terminating the process may not work).
Now, in the question of how to disable OneDrive in Windows 10, we proceed to the most important thing. We use the “/ uninstall” command (without quotes), entered through a space in the command line after writing for the 64-bit system “% SystemRoot% \ SysWOW64 \ OneDriveSetup.exe” (also without quotes), for 32-bit systems - “% SystemRoot% \ System32 \ OneDriveSetup.exe. " After that, the service is disconnected (deleted) forever.
As you can see, this is how the problem of how to disable OneDrive in Windows 10 is solved. But you need to be very careful (you never know when this service may be needed at the most inopportune moment).