If interested in uninstalling it, go to bottom of page: If you really need it later on and it's impossible to reinstall, you might have to reinstall Windows. Also, it could be re-installed at any time by a Windows Update or installation of another Microsoft product, but I like I said above, I haven't had that problem. I can't predict how difficult it will be to re-install for everyone, but I was just able to do it. I got an error so I ran the uninstall once again, then I was able to re-install it). I just tried to re-install it (in a virtual machine) and it apparently worked. I did this a long time ago and haven't had to mess with it since. I have uninstalled it on all 3 of my Win10 systems. I understand the reasoning behind wanting to keep it, but are you ever really going to use it? Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.You said you don't use OneDrive. If an Answer is helpful, please click 'Accept Answer' and upvote it. I do not find the registry key or GPO to hide or greyed them currently. 'KFMBlockOptIn'='dword:00000001'īased on my test, if the users want to stop Onedrive auto startuping, they could go to Task Manager > Starup, disable OneDrive, or go to Settings tab in OneDrive, uncheck (turn off) the 'Start OneDrive automatically when I sign in to Windows'.

If yes, you may refer to teh link, add the following registry key. ``` changing the KFM setting from Desktop/DOcument/Pictures folders.ĭoes it mean that you want to prevent users from moving their Windows known folders to OneDrive?

I will do some tests via adding realted registry key later, if I have any updates, I would update my reply on next week, thanks for your understanding. To Prevent Users to change the Onedrive auto startup ```īased on our research and tests, there is no such related Group Policy to prevent users stoping the Onedrive auto start.

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