CrAKeN Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Users no longer have to walk on nails and sacrifice lambs to the Microsoft deity in order to uninstall OneDrive from their PCs. Starting with the Windows 10 Creators Update, you can now click on a button and rid yourself of OneDrive, Microsoft's in-house version of Dropbox and Google Drive. Step 1: Press the start button, type and select: "Apps & features"Step 2: In the Apps & features window, in the "Search this list" box type in "OneDrive"Step 3: Select OneDrive and hit the "Uninstall" button That's it! You've now got rid yourself of an app you never asked for, never wanted, but which Microsoft still shoved down your throat. Since the launch of Windows 10 in the summer of 2015, Microsoft has made it a pain to remove OneDrive from Windows 10 computers, never providing a one-click uninstall procedure. Users had to use all sorts of registry hacks, batch scripts, or specialized apps to uninstall OneDrive [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Starting with Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft appears to have listened to its many critics and is now providing a simple method to uninstall OneDrive. New OneDrive uninstall feature tested last year According to reports, Microsoft appears to have been testing this option since December 2016. Users reported seeing the uninstall button as early as OS Build 14393.576. In tests performed by Bleeping Computer, the Uninstall button didn't appear for all machines. For example, a Windows 10 Pro version 1607 OS Build 14393.953 displayed the Uninstall button, while an identical Home edition did not. The uninstall button does appear in all the Creators Update machines we tested and is corroborated by reports from two other publications [1, 2]. Two days ago, Microsoft also disclosed for the first time the amount and type of telemetry the company collects from users via the Full and Basic diagnostics settings. It is great to see Microsoft becoming more transparent with its users and even listening to feedback, such as providing a way to uninstall OneDrive without too much hassle. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 The reg hack does the same thing and it only disables it the reason i got rid of it i dont want look at it's icon in file explorer, you can disable from auto startup in the program itself but there is no way to really uninstall apps from Universal Windows Platform (UWP) without force uninstalling it and witch most likely could damage the system . If you use a 3rd party search program like Everything you will still see all these apps are very much still there . They dont have a purge like Linux does for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). I dont have Edge ether there is a few ways you can get rid of it 1. rename the exes 2 , use group policy or a 3rd party program. 3.Also there is a 3rd party tool to force uninstall it. I just do it with process lasso . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 What's the bet that the next feature update reinstalls it (and any other apps users have dared to uninstall/delete, and settings users have changed, and...), just like all the previous feature updates have... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 12 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Yes, I have set Win10 NOT to update my drivers, in WinAnniversare , so before the upgrade to Creators. Well, after the upgrade, Windows started immediately with updating all my drivers................! The desktop-interface was horrible, the arrows , which I all removed, were back again, folderviews were all totally different and worst; I could not find the screen-settings, they are gone or on a different place, this upgrade seems to have much more bugs then previous. So, I rolled back to previous version , will wait untill most bugs are eliminated................ ( better think twice and backup well before you start upgrading !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLONN7 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 2 hours ago, Pete 12 said: Yes, I have set Win10 NOT to update my drivers, in WinAnniversare , so before the upgrade to Creators. Well, after the upgrade, Windows started immediately with updating all my drivers................! The desktop-interface was horrible, the arrows , which I all removed, were back again, folderviews were all totally different and worst; I could not find the screen-settings, they are gone or on a different place, this upgrade seems to have much more bugs then previous. So, I rolled back to previous version , will wait untill most bugs are eliminated................ ( better think twice and backup well before you start upgrading !) So much time spent on Windows 10 trolling and you still had the luxury of believing that it would be different this time?!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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