Microsoft says users can now uninstall OneDrive in Windows for good

[LimyG]

Edit: Please read second to last paragraph at the bottom of this post first.

I simply changed group policy in Win 10 pro. That completely makes it impossible to upload download or store files on it - rendering it useless - doesn't show in task manager. That alone turns it off basically.

But after that I Used Revo Uninstaller and it is no where to be found.

That was two years ago, and it is 100% gone, including reg. entries etc. But that isn't necessary. I just hate useless clutter!

Revo uninstaller pro (paid), allows uninstalling almost all "un-installable" Win 10 apps. It won't uninstall the store app however. But:

Access to the store is also OFF in Group policy, so with a local account, the Store can be deactivated and blocked.
It doesn't show in task manager or anywhere. I have used this set up for over two years. No bloat, no useless apps etc etc. With a very snappy OS, as to be expected.

In task manager, "System idle process," sticks at 99% when just at desktop. So most of the time I have 99% of my CPU available for whatever I want to run - games etc. which is nice.

The only "app," I have is Nvidia CP, which doesn't need the store to run or even install. (At least with a local acc.)
Plus Win updates and anti malware/firewall. All other programs, browser, mail, 3 TB of games etc etc are not MS and set not to auto start.

I am using a LOCAL, NON MS account, so probably not the same with the now almost forced MS account. (Local is still possible with a few tricks.)

There are a few other small steps to be sure the store is never connected or active, but I'll stay on topic. Well, I tried. So, ahem, One drive hasn't been on my PC for two years.

 

[LimyG]

Ah well, that's the problem, if you read this thread you'll see that it can't be uninstalled!

You are probably right. But with a local account it can be 100% uninstalled.

Edit: I should add, it has never even tried to re-install itself. Two years. Seems this is only possible on a local account.

 

[hwertz]

Yeah all these tech companies need to come together and agree to pact-of-non-pestering. Get rid of all the super-annoying attempts to move you from your choice to theirs. Using a PC is becoming a constant battle. They are all equally guilty of often very deceptively trying to move you to their browser, search engine, cloud service, home page, email, etc etc.

It would save them all money having to create all this nonsense and do their, pretty sullied, reputations a lot of good.

Well, not to be the guy that bring up Linux in every thread but.... I don't have to deal with this stuff. What annoyances do I get with a fresh, out-of-the-box Ubuntu install?

1) It brings up a notification shortly after install recommending you set up backups. They USED to have a "Ubuntu One" backup service so it would mention you could use that for your backups. It had an option to set it up now, remind you later, or never bother you again.

2) Recently, if you have it set to notify you of updates, it will say you have 20 updates or whatever, but there's 45 if you sign up for Ubuntu Pro. (They fast-track some updates for non-core packages so you can get them faster rather than have them percolate through Debians update approval procedure and show up a few weeks later. They'll also do 12 years of updates instead of 5 years with this service, in cases where the existing install is fine and you don't want to upgrade to the next LTS release (that comes out every 2 years.)) This isn't a seperate notification, it's the notification you'd already get when there's updates to install. (And you can avoid that by having it not check for updates, check for updates or even pre-download them but don't bother notifying you, or by having it auto-install the updates.)

3) ... That's it! And Ubuntu is considered to be notification-heavy compared to some other Linux distros!

I must say, I've always found it rather mad how Microsoft will pretend these what are clearly seperate pieces of software are like welded into the system and non-removeable. They did this starting with Internet Explorer (Windows 95 didn't have it, it was added through an installer, and voila, magic! It's suddenly considered an integral, non-removeable part of the OS and the OS clearly won't work without it, even though the day before the OS ran perfectly fine without it at all.) It was clearly nonsense. And I'm surprised they continue to persist with this type of nonsense. Don't recommend removing something? Sure. Pretend it's irremovable when it's clearly it's just an application running on there? Well, they can do whatever they want but it's pretty ridiculous.

 

[ZedRM]

Is there a United States v. Microsoft Corp., part 2 on the horizon?

Let's hope so!

 

[ZedRM]

You would think there wouldn't need to be one (that Microsoft would've learned its lesson), but here we are.

Big companies are like immature overgrown children: They keep pushing the boundaries and breaking rules until they get beotch-slapped for it, then they shrug it off and continue on.

 

[Ben Myers]

Hi trgz
I must admit that I tend to steer clear of these apps which claim to clean up and/or uninstall, they don't tend to have a good reputation. I certainly won't be uninstalling Edge because many of my customers use it, but I wonder if Edge is playing a part in this scenario. We all know how much Explorer was intertwined with the OS, could Edge be the same. Is it because you uninstalled Edge that One Drive has entirely disappeared from your PC?

CCleaner has worked well for me for years, ever since version 3-something an XP. It is not up to 6.22. Get familiar with its settings before deleting stuff. In other words, think about what each checked option does, and whether it has an effect on your use, especially browsers. It's registry cleaner is slick and foolproof. Couldn't be better/

 

[erickmendes]

Surely in MS counting after the OneDrive will be the 360Drive, then the XDrive (which sounds much more exciting)?

Also Hype Drive