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25 May 2023  John Weaver  Senior Program Developer
 

Summary

Learn how to disable or uninstall OneDrive on your Windows system to free up storage space and customize your device. Our step-by-step guide will help you easily manage your files without the need for this pre-installed application.



Table of contents

table iconI. What is OneDrive?
table iconII. How to disable or uninstall OneDrive?
table iconIII. A backup software that can replace OneDrive - Renee Becca
uninstall Onedrive
I. What is OneDrive?
OneDrive is a cloud synchronization and file sharing service provided by Microsoft. This service supports the management of terminal data including pictures, documents, music and other files on multiple terminals, such as Windows, Android and iOS devices. When the OneDrive service is enabled, a cloud-synchronized hard drive will be associated with your computer. You can perform any operations on all associated files, and all changes will be synchronized to the cloud in real time, such as deletion, modification, and creation. This also means that the service provides only a synchronization service and does not have a cloud backup function.
After a preliminary understanding of the functions of OneDrive, let’s learn how to disable or uninstall OneDrive.
II. How to disable or uninstall OneDrive?

1. Disable OneDrive with the help of local group policy

In Group Policy, you can effectively disable OneDrive by following these steps:
Step 1: Run the computer, press the (Windows+R) keys at the same time to open the running program. After that enter the (gpedit.msc) command and press (OK) to open the Local Group Policy Editor.
Open the Local Group Policy Editor
Step 2: Next, find (Computer Configuration)-(Administrative Templates)-(Windows Components)-(OneDrive) in turn, and then double-click the (Prohibit using OneDrive for file storage) option.
Enable Disable use of OneDrive for file storage
Step 3: After that, on the page that prohibits the use of OneDrive for file storage, check (Enabled) and press the (OK) button at the same time to disable OneDrive, which is very simple.
Execute disable OneDrive service

2. Disable OneDrive using Registry Editor

In addition to the above methods, you can also execute the command to disable OneDrive in the registry editor, the following is the detailed operation method.
Step 1: Run the computer, press the (Windows+R) keys at the same time to open the running program. After that enter the (Regedit) command and press (OK) to open the Registry Editor.
Open the Registry Editor
Step 2: Next, copy the following path into the top search box (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive), or follow this path to expand.
Find the corresponding path
Step 3: After that, select the (OneDrive) option on the left, right-click on the right window, select (New)-(DWORD (32-bit) Value), and name it (DisableFileSyncNGSC). Double-click the value to open the edit window, and set the value data to (1). If you want to restore the OneDrive function in the future, change the value data of the DisableFileSyncNGSC value to (0), or delete the value directly.
New DisableFileSyncNGSC file

3. Uninstall the OneDrive service

Since the operation of uninstalling OneDrive in different Windows versions is similar, here we take the operation method of Windows 10 system as an example, and the specific operation steps are as follows:
Step 1: Run the computer, find (Add or Remove Programs) in the search box and open it.
Find Add or Remove Programs app
Step 2: Next, switch the function option on the left to (Apps and Features), search for (OneDrive) in the search box on the back and select the (Microsoft OneDrive) option, then click (Uninstall). If the system prompts for an administrator password or confirmation, enter the password or confirm.
Find and uninstall Microsoft OneDrive
The above are the various operation methods for uninstalling or disabling the OneDrive program. As we mentioned above, this service only provides a synchronization service and does not have a cloud backup function. Therefore, it is necessary for us to find an alternative to help everyone better backup system data. Again, I recommend you to use a professional data backup tool – Renee Becca.
III. A backup software that can replace OneDrive - Renee Becca

1. What is Renee Becca?

Renee Becca is a tool specially used for system/hard disk data backup and restoration. In terms of technical support, it adopts the leading incremental/differential backup technology, which can save you more time and disk space. In terms of functions, in addition to system backup, it also supports partition backup, hard disk backup, file backup, disk cloning and system migration to meet your different needs. In terms of supported data, it can help you back up and restore important data in your computer, such as programs, system configuration, emails, photos, videos, documents, bookmarks, etc.
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2. How to backup data with Renee Becca?

Backing up data with Renee Becca is very simple, the specific steps are as follows:
Step 1: Download, install and run Renee Becca on the computer, select the (Backup) option on the main interface.
Select file backup options
Step 2: Then select the required function among the three backup options of system backup, hard disk/partition backup, and file backup, and select (file backup) here.
Select files to backup
Step 3: Select the disk where important files are located. You can select the entire disk or expand the disk to select one or more files to be backed up. In addition, daily/weekly/monthly scheduled backup plans can be made, backup schemes can be set, etc.
Renee Becca has 5 backup plans to choose from:
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Customized backup plan
Step 4: After clicking (Backup Now), the backup task and backup progress will be displayed in the task bar. After the backup is complete, you can click the (Restore) button to restore the files to the specified hard disk when necessary.
restore files
Step 5: Then select the location to restore and click the (Restore) button.
Click the restore button
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