How to Stop OneDrive Sync?

Click the OneDrive cloud icon in the taskbar

Select Help & Settings

Click Pause syncing

Choose a pause duration

To stop syncing a specific folder, go to Settings

Open the Account tab

Click Choose folders

Uncheck the folders you want to stop syncing

Click OK

To stop OneDrive completely, open Settings

Go to the Account tab

Click Unlink this PC

Confirm the unlink action

To disable OneDrive from starting automatically, open Task Manager

Go to the Startup tab

Disable Microsoft OneDrive

To uninstall OneDrive, open Settings

Go to Apps

Select Microsoft OneDrive

Click Uninstall

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