How to Completely Uninstall or Remove OneDrive in Windows 10

OneDrive comes installed with Windows 10 and is enabled by default if you sign on with a Microsoft account. If you don’t use OneDrive, however, and don’t want it running in the background, there are some hoops you can jump through to Completely Uninstall or Remove OneDrive in Windows 10.

Tips to Completely Uninstall or Remove OneDrive in Windows 10

Uninstall OneDrive In Windows 10:

1: Open “Command Prompt Administrative”.

Right Click on Windows icon at right bottom corner and then click on Command Prompt (Admin).

2. Type in taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe to terminate any OneDrive processes and hit Enter.

3. Then type in either %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall if you’re using 32-bit Windows 10

or

%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall if you’re using 64-bit Windows 10 and hit Enter.

You won’t see a confirmation dialog or progress bar when you do this, but if you try searching for OneDrive, the app will no longer be found. Your OneDrive folder and files, however, will still be available. So like this process you get the idea of How to disable OneDrive in windows 10.

Cleaning and Removing OneDrive Remnants

However, as OneDrive is a cloud storage service which is dealing with user data, there are remnants and leftovers from the OneDrive app that are still available on the system as uninstallation does not remove user data, most prominently been the OneDrive folder. Here get the solution of How to completely uninstall OneDrive in windows 10. Run the commands below to clean up those remnants by deleting OneDrive related folders and their contents:

rd "%UserProfile%\OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "C:\OneDriveTemp" /Q /S

Delete and Remove OneDrive in File Explorer Folder Tree Registry Key

OneDrive has registry keys that add themselves to the Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 10. After uninstalling OneDrive, these registry keys are orphaned and can be Remove OneDrive from Windows 10.

REG Delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f
REG Delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f

Should you change your mind and want to reinstall OneDrive, head to the “%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\” folder in File Explorer and run the OneDriveSetup.exe program.

So, this is how you can Completely Uninstall or Remove OneDrive in Windows 10. Hope it helps.

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