One Drive is a nightmare. I tried using it on my personal laptop. I came into the office this morning to use the family desktop and there are all my One Drive files. I had to use MY One Drive password to even get into the computer. We had a pin number on the computer that we all knew. Nobody happens to know my pw for One Drive and would not have been able to get into this computer. I followed the instructions to get it off this desktop now I will go take it off of my laptop with Windows 10. I don’t want One Drive on any of my computers anymore. It is a nightmare!!
kavlito
5 years ago
don’t use it and don’t want to waste resources
The woman sick of onedrive
5 years ago
Why I want to remove onedrive from my 8.1 window is just so easyto undertand. I just dont want to 5 gb stupid cloud system to have space in my SDDdisk. I am using other cloud system which gives me 100gb space for free. Because I hate you onedrive, I will change my system 8.1!
Roger
5 years ago
Why waste any resources on things I will never use?
Daniele
4 years ago
I removed Onedrive but it is still there in the start bar bu the clock. WTF?
Anonymous
4 years ago
I don’t use cloud based storage crap, I back all my files up on an external HDD & DVD’s if I want hard copies.
I accidently linked my personal OneDrive to my work pc and don’t want others to have access to my personal files. Thanks for the article.
James
4 years ago
One Drive does not sync when files are longer that 8.3 format which is strange because that s a FAT 16 limitation and windows 8.1 is on NTFS and the OS is 64 bits. Also has numerous issues on the Apple Mac book pro. I moved on to DropBox.
John Wood
4 years ago
One Drive was useful to me some time ago but I now have other methods of auto storage, my One drive is full and it permanently tells me to buy more space which I do not wish to do so having it dsabled suts me fine for now
Jim
4 years ago
I don’t want Microsoft to have access to ANY personal data that isn’t necessary. I don’t trust them.
Aroloye Tenidade
4 years ago
It was using up my data which is not unlimited
Steven Mat.
4 years ago
Safety reason, I would rather keep my money in my pocket then yours.
Steve M.C.
Lt. Helen
4 years ago
Hello I do not want Onedrive even though it is free. I pay for my needs especially where data is concerned. I do not want my data ever held hostage. You have feature built into windows that users will eventually have to pay for. That is no good and I believe it is against fair trade laws. Microsoft Operating system is one of the most popular in the world. Microsoft should not get into data harvesting.
Doc O
4 years ago
One Drive is a nightmare, it puts file in places I can not find on my Acer Switch Have to search to find them.
ROGER S NEWBY
3 years ago
I use Win10 File History to backup onto a USB HDD as well as another cloud based backup system.
Bobby B
3 years ago
I don’t want OneDrive on my laptop as I want to minimize the chances of Microsoft looking at my files and I also know that once the vast majority of people have it, Microsoft will start charging for ALL storage, and won’t give you any for free. That’s the way they work.
They will always offer some free storage, because there is competition that does this. 🙂
BillGates
3 years ago
Because I didn’t ask for it. All it does it take up time and space. I already knew how to save files and have extras for later back when I first had a computer in the 90s.
freddy
3 years ago
I had 8.1 so I wanted it gone. Please keep this tutorial around forever! Thank you very much!
Mouse
3 years ago
It takes up valuable space on my notebook. I also refuse to use any “cloud” storage after a well known highly touted cloud storage lost everything I’d backed up to it in prep for adding a new HD a few years back… if a highly touted & highly recommended “cloud” storage can lose everything over night, why should I trust MS’s “cloud”, after all, it’s just someone else’s computer! I prefer to back up to my oan external HD, thank you very much!!
Frustrated user
3 years ago
Windows OneDrive slowed down the system and took up memory.
Ralph Proud
3 years ago
I have Windows 8.1. I disabled OneDrive because I have Western Digital MyCloud drives (15 TB in total) and uncomfortable with allowing my information to be distributed to unknown locations.
I wanted to get rid of OnenDrive because I didnt ask for windows to come in and control where my stuff automatically goes. I want my documents on my COMPUTER, not cyber space and I’m a little irritated that I have to jump through hoops to make that happen. I bought a computer for the computer…. Not apps like a cell phone and automatic dictation of where and how my things will be stored.
IqbalHamid
3 years ago
OneDrive is INCREDIBLY buggy and poorly designed. I consider, for this reason amongst others, OneDrive to be unreliable and unpredictable. It is also POORLY documented. The documentation does not cover what might happen if I delete a file from one computer? Will that mean that copies of that file from all other computers will also be deleted by the syncing process? I might not always want that to happen. This behaviour is undocumented and unclear. If I cannot understand how the product will behave, I cannot use it and cannot trust it with my docs. Here is another exmaple of how unrefined the product is: On Windows 8.1, OneDrive only decides to include random directories from my Home directory, ie many folders are missing-what the hec? Also how sync conflicts are resolved is also undocumented. So there is only one place for OneDrive, and that is, in the garbage!!! Also, Microsoft has recently acquired a reputation for poor testing regime developing bug-ridden junk and breaching trust (for example, their 2018 W10 update which deleted documents for certain users), I therefore cannot trust them with my documents. I use SYnology NAS drive for my cloud needs.
Annoyed
3 years ago
Have never used Onedrive, all backups on external drives, but in the last few weeks it has suddenly started loading everytime I connect an external drive/usb stick and is very annoying. Also I’ve had windows updates set to ask me first before downloading or installing and around the same time it suddenly automatically updated and also installed the edge browser of its own accord. Deleted that at the time (as only use chrome). Am using Windows 7 so guess I can uninstall it. Thanks for info.
Sue
3 years ago
It interferes with my backup system. I can’t back up my whole computer because of One Drive.
I find it totally confusing. I’ve created docs and and store them. Then when I want to attach a doc to an email I have difficulty finding it. I search for it. I try ‘Recents Files’ and sometimes get it. If the files has not been used for a week or so I don’t where it is. When I search I keep getting told that ‘this file might not be available or deleted’ go to One Drive. When I go to One Drive I still can’t find it. I don’t have a need to share files. I’m retired and I don’t need to produce and share docs with work colleague’s as I did in the past. We did not have much cloud activity around then anyway. Thinking I would use it I signed up for Office 365 Personal for the extra Cloud space for photos and video hobby. I’m not sure if I lose cloud space if I remove OneDrive. Also if I have wasted money subscribing to office 365? Anyhow I’ll keep researching before I remove it.
John Saunders
2 years ago
I thought I had got rid of one drive months ago. All of a sudden I hear that it’s full and I need to sign in to Microsoft and I can buy more space. Nope, don’t like one drive, Cortana, or win/10 actually. Windows 7 was my favorite and I have been around since Windows 3.1.
My next computer will probably be an Apple Mac. From what I understand the system isn’t going to be as intrusive.
Justin
2 months ago
The reason to remove it is because cloud storage has been proven time and time again to be vulnerable to hacking (just ask any celebrity whose naked photos were leaked). ON its face cloud storage is and sounds like an unnecessary forced feature specifically aimed at giving microsoft access to your most personal and private data. It sounds like a scam because it is. no one with a computer who needs more than 512gb of storage is going to have any problem affording a hard drive or usb stick unless they are enterprise level, or a professional scientist.
If it is online it can be hacked. Also, If the company that has it wanted to they could disperse the info then claim a hack by a 3rd party. If any one says Microsoft can be trusted at all they are either mentally deficient or lying for the company on purpose. Noting about microsoft including the way it started is truly on the level and never has been.
As of at least today 2/10/2024 Windows 11 has made onedrive intrinsically connected to the default pictures, desktop, and documents file systems. When I removed one drive from my computer it also disabled those file directories and cleared all pins from my task bar. This means that Microsoft has specifically given its self direct remote access to the most important sections of your computer that would contain Personal identification information, and other very sensitive information. A lot of information about a person such a product preferences, businesses they patronize, political leanings, and family ties can be genned from just pictures. And, as far as documents may go you might have work documents, copies of your identification cards, investment info ect ect.
So now they force you to have to allow it. I hope soon another company uses the precedent ford used about car features in a case involving operating systems so microsoft and apple find them selves in a ma bell situation. and that in the future there are more companies to choose from but all products have common operating features. If nothing else their public domain days com-meth.
Going to give away my PC…
One Drive is a nightmare. I tried using it on my personal laptop. I came into the office this morning to use the family desktop and there are all my One Drive files. I had to use MY One Drive password to even get into the computer. We had a pin number on the computer that we all knew. Nobody happens to know my pw for One Drive and would not have been able to get into this computer. I followed the instructions to get it off this desktop now I will go take it off of my laptop with Windows 10. I don’t want One Drive on any of my computers anymore. It is a nightmare!!
don’t use it and don’t want to waste resources
Why I want to remove onedrive from my 8.1 window is just so easyto undertand. I just dont want to 5 gb stupid cloud system to have space in my SDDdisk. I am using other cloud system which gives me 100gb space for free. Because I hate you onedrive, I will change my system 8.1!
Why waste any resources on things I will never use?
I removed Onedrive but it is still there in the start bar bu the clock. WTF?
I don’t use cloud based storage crap, I back all my files up on an external HDD & DVD’s if I want hard copies.
I accidently linked my personal OneDrive to my work pc and don’t want others to have access to my personal files. Thanks for the article.
One Drive does not sync when files are longer that 8.3 format which is strange because that s a FAT 16 limitation and windows 8.1 is on NTFS and the OS is 64 bits. Also has numerous issues on the Apple Mac book pro. I moved on to DropBox.
One Drive was useful to me some time ago but I now have other methods of auto storage, my One drive is full and it permanently tells me to buy more space which I do not wish to do so having it dsabled suts me fine for now
I don’t want Microsoft to have access to ANY personal data that isn’t necessary. I don’t trust them.
It was using up my data which is not unlimited
Safety reason, I would rather keep my money in my pocket then yours.
Steve M.C.
Hello I do not want Onedrive even though it is free. I pay for my needs especially where data is concerned. I do not want my data ever held hostage. You have feature built into windows that users will eventually have to pay for. That is no good and I believe it is against fair trade laws. Microsoft Operating system is one of the most popular in the world. Microsoft should not get into data harvesting.
One Drive is a nightmare, it puts file in places I can not find on my Acer Switch Have to search to find them.
I use Win10 File History to backup onto a USB HDD as well as another cloud based backup system.
I don’t want OneDrive on my laptop as I want to minimize the chances of Microsoft looking at my files and I also know that once the vast majority of people have it, Microsoft will start charging for ALL storage, and won’t give you any for free. That’s the way they work.
They will always offer some free storage, because there is competition that does this. 🙂
Because I didn’t ask for it. All it does it take up time and space. I already knew how to save files and have extras for later back when I first had a computer in the 90s.
I had 8.1 so I wanted it gone. Please keep this tutorial around forever! Thank you very much!
It takes up valuable space on my notebook. I also refuse to use any “cloud” storage after a well known highly touted cloud storage lost everything I’d backed up to it in prep for adding a new HD a few years back… if a highly touted & highly recommended “cloud” storage can lose everything over night, why should I trust MS’s “cloud”, after all, it’s just someone else’s computer! I prefer to back up to my oan external HD, thank you very much!!
Windows OneDrive slowed down the system and took up memory.
I have Windows 8.1. I disabled OneDrive because I have Western Digital MyCloud drives (15 TB in total) and uncomfortable with allowing my information to be distributed to unknown locations.
15 GB is a generous amount of space.
I wanted to get rid of OnenDrive because I didnt ask for windows to come in and control where my stuff automatically goes. I want my documents on my COMPUTER, not cyber space and I’m a little irritated that I have to jump through hoops to make that happen. I bought a computer for the computer…. Not apps like a cell phone and automatic dictation of where and how my things will be stored.
OneDrive is INCREDIBLY buggy and poorly designed. I consider, for this reason amongst others, OneDrive to be unreliable and unpredictable. It is also POORLY documented. The documentation does not cover what might happen if I delete a file from one computer? Will that mean that copies of that file from all other computers will also be deleted by the syncing process? I might not always want that to happen. This behaviour is undocumented and unclear. If I cannot understand how the product will behave, I cannot use it and cannot trust it with my docs. Here is another exmaple of how unrefined the product is: On Windows 8.1, OneDrive only decides to include random directories from my Home directory, ie many folders are missing-what the hec? Also how sync conflicts are resolved is also undocumented. So there is only one place for OneDrive, and that is, in the garbage!!! Also, Microsoft has recently acquired a reputation for poor testing regime developing bug-ridden junk and breaching trust (for example, their 2018 W10 update which deleted documents for certain users), I therefore cannot trust them with my documents. I use SYnology NAS drive for my cloud needs.
Have never used Onedrive, all backups on external drives, but in the last few weeks it has suddenly started loading everytime I connect an external drive/usb stick and is very annoying. Also I’ve had windows updates set to ask me first before downloading or installing and around the same time it suddenly automatically updated and also installed the edge browser of its own accord. Deleted that at the time (as only use chrome). Am using Windows 7 so guess I can uninstall it. Thanks for info.
It interferes with my backup system. I can’t back up my whole computer because of One Drive.
How does it do that? Can you share some details?
I find it totally confusing. I’ve created docs and and store them. Then when I want to attach a doc to an email I have difficulty finding it. I search for it. I try ‘Recents Files’ and sometimes get it. If the files has not been used for a week or so I don’t where it is. When I search I keep getting told that ‘this file might not be available or deleted’ go to One Drive. When I go to One Drive I still can’t find it. I don’t have a need to share files. I’m retired and I don’t need to produce and share docs with work colleague’s as I did in the past. We did not have much cloud activity around then anyway. Thinking I would use it I signed up for Office 365 Personal for the extra Cloud space for photos and video hobby. I’m not sure if I lose cloud space if I remove OneDrive. Also if I have wasted money subscribing to office 365? Anyhow I’ll keep researching before I remove it.
I thought I had got rid of one drive months ago. All of a sudden I hear that it’s full and I need to sign in to Microsoft and I can buy more space. Nope, don’t like one drive, Cortana, or win/10 actually. Windows 7 was my favorite and I have been around since Windows 3.1.
My next computer will probably be an Apple Mac. From what I understand the system isn’t going to be as intrusive.
The reason to remove it is because cloud storage has been proven time and time again to be vulnerable to hacking (just ask any celebrity whose naked photos were leaked). ON its face cloud storage is and sounds like an unnecessary forced feature specifically aimed at giving microsoft access to your most personal and private data. It sounds like a scam because it is. no one with a computer who needs more than 512gb of storage is going to have any problem affording a hard drive or usb stick unless they are enterprise level, or a professional scientist.
If it is online it can be hacked. Also, If the company that has it wanted to they could disperse the info then claim a hack by a 3rd party. If any one says Microsoft can be trusted at all they are either mentally deficient or lying for the company on purpose. Noting about microsoft including the way it started is truly on the level and never has been.
As of at least today 2/10/2024 Windows 11 has made onedrive intrinsically connected to the default pictures, desktop, and documents file systems. When I removed one drive from my computer it also disabled those file directories and cleared all pins from my task bar. This means that Microsoft has specifically given its self direct remote access to the most important sections of your computer that would contain Personal identification information, and other very sensitive information. A lot of information about a person such a product preferences, businesses they patronize, political leanings, and family ties can be genned from just pictures. And, as far as documents may go you might have work documents, copies of your identification cards, investment info ect ect.
So now they force you to have to allow it. I hope soon another company uses the precedent ford used about car features in a case involving operating systems so microsoft and apple find them selves in a ma bell situation. and that in the future there are more companies to choose from but all products have common operating features. If nothing else their public domain days com-meth.