Onedrive thing

[TdC]

Hi all,

I want to completely get rid of the force-fed wank that is Microsoft Onedrive. It seems it's integration in Windows is near enough total, and you simply can't, even if you want to. Well, I want to. Any ideas?

 

[soze]

I think it is impossible to remove it completely as one of the reasons 10 is free is they want people signing up to it. But you can follow the instructions here to hide/remove a lot of it. I will also have £10 on the monopolies commision sorting this out by 11 so you have to have a cunty cloud storage choice window instead of just OneDrive.

 

[TdC]

Cheers Soze, that actually worked for everything except (and given my trackrecord, probably business as usual) Office. Every time I want to save a doc, Office tries to put Onedrive first, and that's annoying as fuck

 

[soze]

You can change that easy enought. Go to Word Options the Save the change the Default File Location to whatever folder you want. That works in everything up to 2016 I have not tried it there. It is also App specific so you have to change them all.

 

[TdC]

You can change that easy enought. Go to Word Options the Save the change the Default File Location to whatever folder you want. That works in everything up to 2016 I have not tried it there. It is also App specific so you have to change them all.

funnily enough I am actually aware of this. There are no issues when I just save, but there are on save-as, because the top save location on the list is Onedrive, and that gets on my tits

 

[soze]

In the save options untick "Show additional places for Saving even is Sing In is required" that hid OneDrive for me.

 

[TdC]

Cheers Sozelar, I've done that bit but it's -nggggh- still showing me the onedrive Ah well, at least I feel I've taken things about as far as I can

 

[dysfunction]

Just saw this today! Hope it helps @TdC !

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-completely-uninstall-onedrive-in-windows-10-1725363532

 

[soze]

I actually use my OneDrive so can't test this properly but On mine selecting the "Save to Computer by Default" does make it default to my local file location. But I can't make Sky Drive go away yet in 10

 

[TdC]

Yeah Sozebacon, I'm about on the same page tbh. I want it completely gone from my Office, and simply put I haven't found a way to do that yet.

 

[MYstIC G]

Yeah Sozebacon, I'm about on the same page tbh. I want it completely gone from my Office, and simply put I haven't found a way to do that yet.

Untick the "Show additional places for saving, even if sign in may be required" box on the Save panel. That should do the trick, though it won't go anywhere if OneDrive is still installed iirc.

 

[TdC]

did that a while ago. afaict I don't have onedrive anywhere, but this is what I see...

 

[MYstIC G]

did that a while ago. afaict I don't have onedrive anywhere, but this is what I see...


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Is you still "signed in" according to the Office application in question?

 

[TdC]

Yay, you star you! I had to log out of two things before the onedrive would fuck off o_0

All sorted now

 

[Nate]

Hmm, this would be handy. Irritating bloatware be gone! But I GPedit.msc does not exist for me

 

[soze]

haha mad it was a simple as signing out.

@Nate try search for Group Policy if that does not find it try running gpedit from a command prompt.

 

[Nate]

Went to system32 folder, there isn't a GPedit.msc there, there is a .dll though

 

[MYstIC G]

Went to system32 folder, there isn't a GPedit.msc there, there is a .dll though

On win10 just open the start menu and type "policy" it should come up with "Edit group policy"

 

[Nate]

On win10 just open the start menu and type "policy" it should come up with "Edit group policy"

Typing policy and clicking Edit Group Policy brings up:

 

[MYstIC G]

In the start menu, not in settings...

 

[TdC]

You can edit only if you have 10 Pro or above iirc

 

[MrFright]

I actually like Overdrive as a service but yeah things like this make me weary of upgrading. I hated when they tried to impose the Live accounts to win 8 as well.

 

[old.Osy]

I actually use and like OneDrive, so meh.

 

[TdC]

Heritic!

 

[Moriath]

I just signed up to get office 365, comes with 1tb of onedrive space. Is great for my photo backups and such.

 

[soze]

I actually use and like OneDrive, so meh.

Me too, new laptop installed Office 365 started the sync of OneDrive for Business and when that has finished I redirect all my folders to that and my Desktop and Laptop are then synchronised. But you should be able to easily remove it if you don't want it. And I do see them getting a massive fine for this and you will end up with an option to remove it just like IE.

 

[Lakih]

I like OneDrive as well, I use it for my OneNote books and it's a good enough place to backup photos. Also have a 2nd backup at my home server and a 3rd at Apple photostream... Importing new photos through the MacBook copies them to all backup places and makes them available online and on any device I use.