How to Turn Off OneDrive on Windows 11?

Right-click the OneDrive cloud icon in the taskbar

Select Settings

Open the Account tab

Click Unlink this PC

Confirm the unlink action

Open OneDrive settings again

Go to the General tab

Uncheck Start OneDrive automatically when I sign in to Windows

Open Task Manager

Go to the Startup apps tab

Disable Microsoft OneDrive

Open Settings

Go to Apps

Select Installed apps

Find Microsoft OneDrive

Click the three-dot menu

Select Uninstall

Confirm the uninstall action

Open Group Policy Editor

Go to Computer Configuration

Go to Administrative Templates

Go to Windows Components

Open OneDrive

Enable Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage

Open Registry Editor

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsOneDrive

Create a DWORD value named DisableFileSyncNGSC

Set the value to 1

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