How to Uninstall OneDrive Completely in Windows 10

1. Introduction
2. Steps to follow
3. Read also

Introduction

OneDrive is installed with Windows 10 and is enabled by default if you sign in with a Microsoft account. However, if you already have your own cloud storage service, you do not require the use of OneDrive, and you do not want it running in the background, you can disable it or simply uninstall it from your Windows 10.
Although Microsoft does not offer an easy way to remove OneDrive, you can disable it anywhere in Windows 10 or uninstall it manually.
Disabling OneDrive will prevent it from running and it will be removed from the file explorer completely. You can easily re-enable it later if you wish.

Steps to follow

To disable OneDrive:

Unfortunately, Windows 10 Home users do not have access to the Group Policy Editor, so they will not have this option. But if you are running the Professional version or another version of Windows 10, go to the Group Policy Editor

1. Type "gpedit.msc" in the search box

2. Navigate to Local Computer Policy> Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Windows Components> OneDrive.

3. Double-click Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage.

4. Select the “enabled” button then click Ok.

OneDrive should now be disabled - you will not be able to open the app, but the icons will still be there.

To uninstall OneDrive completely:

1. Open the command prompt in Administrator mode

2. Type taskkill / f / im OneDrive.exe to end all OneDrive processes and press Enter.

3. Then type either

% SystemRoot% System32OneDriveSetup.exe / uninstall if you are using Windows 10 32-bit

Or % SystemRoot% SysWOW64OneDriveSetup.exe / uninstall if you are using Windows 10 64-bit and press Enter.

You will not see a confirmation dialog or progress bar when you do this, but if you try to search for OneDrive, the application will no longer be found. Your OneDrive folder and files, however, will still be available.

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