We recommend uninstalling the OneDrive client on Windows 10 Home, or using Group Policy on Windows 10 Professional. Update: You no longer have to edit your PC’s registry to do this. Press Enter to open Registry Editor and give it permission to make changes to your PC. To get started, open the Registry Editor by hitting Start and typing “regedit”. And definitely back up the Registry (and your computer!) before making changes. That said, if you’ve never worked with it before, consider reading about how to use the Registry Editor before you get started.

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.

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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. 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.

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