Remove One Drive Permanently (Windows 10)

[straycat19]

The author has tested this on his own system and it works great. He also undid the changes and was able to get OneDrive to install again.

 

Warning: He takes no responsibility if anything breaks, as we are essentially circumventing functions of the operating system. I did run tests on this script using a virtual machine at least 10 times, and it worked without a hitch during both reinstall and uninstall of OneDrive. Caveat emptor!

 

To disable One Drive permanently in either Windows 10 Home or Pro 32 or 64 bit, do the following:

 

Click Start, then type in "cmd" (no quotes); wait for "CMD.EXE" or "Command Prompt" to appear in the list, then right click it and select "Run as Administrator".
 

Highlight the text below using your mouse:

 

rem task kill one drive if running; uninstall onedrive permanently; delete onedrive executable
rem clean user directories; delete onedrive registries
rem this script came from https://www.infopackets.com

taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe
%SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall
%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall

echo hi

rem pause 25 seconds here and wait for uninstall to complete
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 25 > nul

takeown /f %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe >out.txt
icacls %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe /reset /T >out2.txt
takeown /f %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe >out.txt
icacls %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /reset /T >out2.txt
del /f /q %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe
del /f /q %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe

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

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

echo hi

rem block EXEs by creating folders with same .EXE names

mkdir %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe
mkdir %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe
mkdir "%UserProfile%\OneDrive"
mkdir "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive"
mkdir "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive"
mkdir "C:\OneDriveTemp"

echo hi

rem set deny permissions on directories

icacls %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe /inheritance:r /deny "Everyone:(OI)(CI)(F)" "ANONYMOUS LOGON:(OI)(CI)(F)"
icacls %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /inheritance:r /deny "Everyone:(OI)(CI)(F)" "ANONYMOUS LOGON:(OI)(CI)(F)"
icacls "%UserProfile%\OneDrive" /inheritance:r /deny "Everyone:(OI)(CI)(F)" "ANONYMOUS LOGON:(OI)(CI)(F)"
icacls "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /inheritance:r /deny "Everyone:(OI)(CI)(F)" "ANONYMOUS LOGON:(OI)(CI)(F)"
icacls "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive" /inheritance:r /deny "Everyone:(OI)(CI)(F)" "ANONYMOUS LOGON:(OI)(CI)(F)"
icacls "C:\OneDriveTemp" /inheritance:r /deny "Everyone:(OI)(CI)(F)" "ANONYMOUS LOGON:(OI)(CI)(F)"

echo hi
 
Right click the above highlighted text, then select "Copy" from the dialogue menu.
 
Next, right click in the middle of the administrative command prompt window and select "Paste". The text you copied in Step #2 should be output to the command line.

 

Once the script is finished, OneDrive should be permanently disabled. Don't worry if you see any error messages as this script is designed to work for both Windows 10 32bit and 64bit.

 

Optionally continue on with Step #5.
 
You can attempt to download and install OneDrive manually. You will either get an error message that "OneDrive couldn't be installed" with Error code 0x80070005, or it will simply not do anything.

 

If you want to undo the changes, read the next section.

 

How to Reinstall After You Remove OneDrive Permanently

 

To Reinstate OneDrive, you will need to reset permissions on the directories, delete the directories, then reinstall OneDrive.

 

To do so:

Click Start, then type in "cmd" (no quotes); wait for "CMD.EXE" or "Command Prompt" to appear in the list, then right click it and select "Run as Administrator".
 
Highlight the text below using your mouse:

 

rem undo permissions
rem this script came from https://www.infopackets.com

takeown /f %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe >out.txt
icacls %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe /reset /T >out2.txt
takeown /f %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe >out.txt
icacls %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /reset /T >out2.txt
takeown /f "%UserProfile%\OneDrive" >out.txt
icacls "%UserProfile%\OneDrive" /reset /T >out2.txt
takeown /f "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive" >out.txt
icacls "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /reset /T >out2.txt
takeown /f "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive" >out.txt
icacls "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive" /reset /T >out2.txt
takeown /f "C:\OneDriveTemp" >out.txt
icacls "C:\OneDriveTemp" /reset /T >out2.txt

rem delete directories

rmdir %SystemRoot%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe
rmdir %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe
rmdir /q /s "%UserProfile%\OneDrive"
rmdir /q /s "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive"
rmdir /q /s "%ProgramData%\Microsoft OneDrive"
rmdir /q /s "C:\OneDriveTemp"

echo hi
 
Right click the above highlighted text, then select "Copy" from the dialogue menu.
 
Next, right click in the middle of the administrative command prompt window and select "Paste". The text you copied in Step #2 should be output to the command line. Don't worry if you see any error messages as this script is designed to work for both Windows 10 32bit and 64bit.
 
You can now download and install OneDrive manually (https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-ca/download/). It should install without any issues.

 

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[MrZeb]

Hi,

 

On recent Windows 10 versions Microsoft allow OneDrive to be Uninstalled like any other program so I don't think this is needed...

[Pete 12]

Very usefull !

Still encountering some reg-files which starting after every reboot , while I removed them before ....

What do you know about ; FileSyncEx , and the strange behaviour of some context-items which keep comming back in the contextmenu after reboot , while I removed them before............

( Open Localisation , Library , with a list of icons with it, etc. )