How To Disable Or Uninstall OneDrive

Turning off, disabling, and uninstalling OneDrive is trickier than doing the identical for different functions. This is as a result of OneDrive comes built-in with some Windows variations because of which it isn’t potential to utterly uninstall OneDrive. However, there are a lot of methods round this from unlinking your OneDrive to disabling it. 

How to Turn Off OneDrive 

If you might be bored with your recordsdata routinely syncing to OneDrive, inflicting the device to decelerate, turning off One Drive is the most suitable choice.

You can quickly pause syncing your recordsdata on OneDrive for two, 8, or 24 hours. This characteristic additionally works for Mac.

1. On the notification tray, positioned on the underside proper nook of your taskbar, discover OneDrive. If it isn’t obtainable there, click on on the Windows brand and seek for OneDrive.
2. A notification field will pop up.
3. Go to Help and Settings, positioned on the underside.
4. Click on Pause Syncing.
5. Click on the variety of hours you need OneDrive to cease syncing your recordsdata.

How to Disable Onedrive

If you wish to disable OneDrive completely, you may cease the recordsdata from utterly syncing to the drive. This can even take away OneDrive from the taskbar, and cease it from beginning routinely while you open Windows.

To cease your recordsdata syncing to one-drive storage, observe the steps under:

1. On the notification tray, positioned on the underside proper nook of your taskbar, discover OneDrive. If it isn’t obtainable there, click on on the Windows brand and seek for OneDrive.
2. A notification field will pop up.
3. Go to Help and Settings, positioned on the underside.
4. Go to the Accounts tab.
5. Click on Choose folders.
6. Uncheck all of the folders that you just don’t need obtainable on OneDrive.
7. As these recordsdata should not obtainable on OneDrive, they won’t sync as effectively.
8. Click on Ok.

Disable OneDrive in Windows 8 and eight.1

Previously, it was not potential to uninstall OneDrive from Windows 8 and eight.1 because it got here built-in with the OS. Now nevertheless, Microsoft has introduced that from March 2022, OneDrive syncing will not be supported on Windows 8 and eight.1. If you wish to proceed using OneDrive, you’ll have to get a Windows improve. 

All your synced recordsdata can nonetheless be accessed by your account. However, with out the improve, recordsdata will longer be synced. 

If you wish to disable OneDrive in Windows 8 and eight.1 earlier than March 2022, please observe the steps under.

1. Go to PC settings. 
2. Click on OneDrive on the left hand panel. 
3. You will discover 4 choices; file storage, digital camera roll, sync settings and metered connection. You can go to every one in all them and disable syncing. 
4. Click on File Storage, swap off “Save document to OneDrive by default”
5. Click on Camera Roll, choose Don’t add photos and swap off “Automatically upload videos to OneDrive.”
6. Click on the Sync Settings, swap off “Sync your settings on this PC”
7. Click on the Metered Connection, swap off all of the choices. 

How to Stop Onedrive From Syncing

Unlinking OneDrive is in between disabling OneDrive and uninstalling it. It mainly stops syncing your recordsdata utterly however the software continues to be obtainable. You can merely login and hyperlink your account once more. 

Unlinking OneDrive doesn’t delete your recordsdata except you could have chosen recordsdata to be saved on-demand (on-line). You can test this by going to the settings, and taking a look at folders below the accounts tab. Once you uncheck recordsdata to be on-demand, you may observe the steps under to unlink OneDrive: 

1. On the notification tray, positioned on the underside proper nook of your taskbar, discover OneDrive. If it isn’t obtainable there, click on on the Windows brand and seek for OneDrive.
2. A notification field will pop up.
3. Go to Help and Settings, positioned on the underside.
4. Go to Accounts tab.
5. Select Unlink this PC choice.
6. Pop-up field will inform you that recordsdata will cease syncing and on-line recordsdata will likely be eliminated. 
7. You can choose “Unlink account.”

How to Uninstall OneDrive

If you aren’t happy with simply disabling or unlinking OneDrive, you may also strive uninstalling the appliance utterly. Unfortunately, that is solely potential on Windows 7, Windows Vista and a few variations of Windows 10.

Microsoft has additionally just lately introduced that OneDrive syncing will not be supported in Windows 8 and eight.1 from March 2022. 

To uninstall OneDrive from Windows 10, Windows 7 and Windows Vista, please observe the steps under. 

Windows 10 and 11

1. Go to the windows brand.
2. Type Control Panel and click on on it.
3. Click on Programs and options.
4. Select Microsoft OneDrive.
5. Click on Uninstall.

Windows 7 or Windows Vista

1. Click on the windows brand.
2. Type Programs and click on on it.
3. Click on Programs and Features.
4. Select Microsoft OneDrive.
5. Click on Uninstall.

Uninstall OneDrive on Mac

In comparability, uninstalling OneDrive on a Mac is pretty easy as a result of it doesn’t come built-in with the OS and doesn’t have OneDrive as default location to avoid wasting recordsdata. As such, the steps to uninstall OneDrive is much like uninstalling every other software. To accomplish that, observe the steps under:  

1. Quit OneDrive.
2. On the search button, positioned on the highest proper nook of your Mac.
3. Type Applications and click on on it. 
4. Search for OneDrive.
5. Control click on on the appliance, choose “Move to Trash”.

How to Turn Off Notifications on One Drive?

If you might be getting irritated with the fixed notifications relating to any modifications made to your recordsdata, you may also flip off notifications for One Drive. 

1. On the notification tray, positioned on the underside proper nook of your taskbar, discover OneDrive. If it isn’t obtainable there, click on on the Windows brand and seek for OneDrive.
2. On the notification field that pops up.
3. Go to Help and Settings, positioned on the underside left nook.
4. Click on Settings. 
5. Go to the Settings tab.
6. Under notification, disable the notification you don’t need
7. Click on Ok.

How to Stop Onedrive From Opening On Startup?

To cease OneDrive from beginning routinely,

1. On the notification tray, positioned on the underside proper nook of your taskbar, discover OneDrive. If it isn’t obtainable there, click on on the Windows brand and seek for OneDrive.
2. A notification field will pop up.
3. Go to Help and Settings, positioned on the underside.
4. Go to Setting tab
5. Under General uncheck Start OneDrive routinely after I register to Windows 
6. Click on Ok.
7. This prevents OneDrive from beginning routinely, it is going to additionally take away OneDrive from the taskbar because it won’t be working anymore.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will I Lose All My Files if I Unlink OneDrive ?

No, except your recordsdata are saved on-line or on-demand, you’ll not lose any recordsdata in case you unlink OneDrive. The on-demand recordsdata are recordsdata that haven’t been downloaded and synced however saved on-line instantly. 

How to Uninstall OneDrive on Android ?

Before attempting to uninstall OneDrive in Android, it is best to test whether or not it’s potential or not. This is as a result of Android telephones with Windows 10 in addition to Samsung Galaxy gadgets have OneDrive pre-installed and thus can’t be uninstalled. For these telephones, it’s potential to solely uninstall the updates or disable the app. 

To uninstall the appliance in different Android, observe the steps under: 

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap on Storage/Memory.
3. Tap on OneDrive.
4. Select Uninstall. 

How to Uninstall OneDrive With Command Prompt ?

To uninstall OneDrive in Windows 10 using Command immediate, observe the steps under. Before working the command immediate, test whether or not your Windows 10 is 64 bit or 32 bit OS. To test this, observe the steps under: 

1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Select System and Security. 
3. Click on System.
4. You can discover info on the OS under the Windows brand. 

Once which OS your device has, observe the steps under: 

1. Click on the Windows brand. 
2. Type “Command Prompt”
3. Type in:  taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exeto shut the app from working.
4. Copy the next textual content into the field if in case you have 32 bit OS: %systemroot%System32OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall 
5. Copy the next textual content into the field if in case you have 64 bit OS: %systemrootpercentSysWOW64OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall
6. Press Enter.