I wish I knew about this when I first received my Windows 11 PC. EVERYTHING on my PC seems to be in the OneDrive and now I can't even get my emails because it's full. What an absolute nightmare! Very unhappy with this forced backup/babysitting BS! That Linex PC is looking pretty good right now since I have to spend the next hour or so taking all my files out of the OneDrive and putting them on my C drive.
Same with me! It's absolutely absurd that they forced this Onedrive onto unsuspecting consumers, without our permission. And then they deviously offer to sell us more space!! I paid enough for my PC and refuse to buy space from Windows. What a SCAM!!
@@c.Ichthys And be careful once you get everything all set and on your hard drive. Over time it will switch back to One Drive again. I just caught mine doing that a couple days ago. Now I have to go back and see how long it’s been since it switch on me!
@@tattoodude8946did you find a solution? I disabled and unlinked but one drive somehow is still messing things up. I disabled and new files I make on desktop and documents still revert back to old files and new files get pushed to a new one drive folder this is a mess when I’m trying to write code and shits gone every day lol
Thank you so much! I didn't quite realize just what I was signing up for when I first got this Windows11 computer. Certain programs I have can't access files stored on OneDrive, plus I filled it up rather rapidly, but have plenty of local storage. Thanks again!
I built my pc, 6 months ago For some reason, windows, my ganes and much else stored their files there, making the pc corrupt as hell and like 15gb over the storage limit lol This was an easy task, i did not know it could be uninstalled that easely ahah, thank you!
Excellent video!! I'm so glad I found you! These instructions were perfect and, in my case, comprehensively matched step-by-step with my Windows 11 PC in how to deal with "OneDrive"! Your presentation was concise and immediately got to the point and I had confidence in following these instructions. And they worked perfectly! Thank you so much for these precise instructions and in helping me to do what I needed to do with Windows! 👍 👍
Uninstalled OneDrive and even the logo vanished but after an auto Windows update after a period of time, the OneDrive logo reappeared on my 'Account' window in 'Settings.' How? Why? And how do I remove it? I don't even have OneDrive showing as an app or program on my comp'. Thanks in advance!!!🙏
Yes, and if you DELETE FILES from onedrive, any you're 'synced' with your physical drive, would that suddenly delete files from your physical drive too??!!
Perfect steps to the level of solution a user may want. I wanted this sucker g.o.n.e. So annoying and absolutely cannot trust it. Thank you for a well-done video.
The problem with One Drive is that it backs up too much. It used to be it only backed up what you put in the Onedrive folder. Now it backs up everything making it unavailable locally. If you have games Onedrive can constantly backup working files, limiting bandwidth and system resources available to the game. You have no control.
Didn't answer my question. The question is how to stop Onedrive from created its folder. I already stopped it, uninstalled, unlinked, etc. But, it still keeps creating a folder automatically with which takes control of my media.
One drive somehow still backed up my desktop and appdata when there was a new update today. It’s not even installed and it’s able to come back from the dead! I’m really considering going back to windows 7.
Don't Uninstall OneDrive! , Disable instead of uninstalling OneDrive it's because it uses second background for dependencies windows 11/10 just like Microsoft Edge it also uses second background which will create many errors hidden which let's slows and freezes your PC.
I uninstalled it. I don't understand what you mean by "second background for dependencies." Why are they important and what will create many hidden errors? Your post doesn't make sense to me.
@@tomcalarco8196 Microsoft has architecture desgined, if you uninstall OneDrive it will create a lot hidden errors which means your computer can slowdown in future. just simply disable it instead of uninstalling making it worse because he is one of two (Microsoft Edge) has second background for dependencies. trust me. I dont use OneDrive either and i hate it Onedrive but i prefer this OneDrive by website. but i disabled it. and I wanted uninstall so bad too... but it uses second background dependency unfortunately.
Please I need help, I bought a new computer and installed Windows 11 Pro. I didn't realized OneDrive was installed. When I saw OneDrive was making backups to the cloud without telling me or even wanting it to do so. I went to the Windows setting and uninstalled it. It is completely gone, but I still have the the OneDrive folder in my home directory, and within it, I have Desktop, Documents and Images folders. How to I fix it without losing the files in the those folders and deleting OneDrive folder and keeping it deleted for ever?
honest what pissed me off is recently i did a mass deletion, turns out one drive save every fucking thing i deleted to the cloud so now i had to go delete it from the cloud, sort of messed up if when deleteing stuff i have to do it twice
I purchased a new laptop and for some reason my desktop folder and other folders that are supposed to be inside the user folder are all inside OneDrive. Do you know how to solve this issue?
@@zdf1000 once you unlink it from the settings of one drive go to the folders and click on properties and then change the destination back to the user folder
@@zdf1000 when I say unlink you need to go into the Onedrive settings then to backup and uncheck the folders you don't want it to backup. After that you can change the folder paths back to the user folder.
Thanks. Good to know. What i did instead is that i basically dragged and dropped the Desktop and Documents folders in the OneDrive folder into my User path (where they are supposed to be). It seems to work now. I guess it does the same thing. At my first try, when i deleted the OneDrive folder with Desktop and Documents folders in it, it messed things up. My desktop disappeared and such... ^^
@@zdf1000 yeah it's messed up. Such a weird thing Microsoft is doing. Plus you can't login to a new pc locally anymore. You need an internet connection, so you have to do this stupid step every time now.
OneDrive is not listed on the list of apps in order for me to disable it. In addition, it is not on my taskbar, however it does come up every time I want to save a document or picture. I do not want this. When I check for its location on the C drive it's in C: Users/(my name/AppData/Local. How to I uninstall this please? Thank you!
Exactly. This doesn't remove Onedrive as a folder path, and you can't have the desktop without it going to Onedrive first. So Annoying. Plus, Onedrive will still ask you to sync whenever you add to a folder in Onedrive.
Yes but how do you get control of the location of your documents folder etc???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
thank you jesus (and you too windowschimp) I hate microsoft so much. they had files disabled. I'm a reporter and youtuber. their policies fly in the face of private property all the time. and privacy.
One drive is garbage , it single handedly broke the thumnails of every picture and video on my entire computer, as soon as it went poof all my shit works again
I went into one drive on my new windows 11 laptop and just unlinked it from my pc, I started having issues with it messing up game files the first three days of using the laptop. I did lose all my game saves and will have to start over but at least I do not have a lot of things saved on this pc and saving to the one drive app. That was very sneaky of Microsoft to have that thing up and going right out of the gate. It is pointless on a gaming pc that has 1TB of storage for game saves and files and it wants to store those to its useless 5GB. They just want to sell you a program. We will see if it causes anymore problems, if so I will delete it I guess.
I guess I am the dummy of all dummies. I click on that cloud and never, not once do I get the same come up as your image. When I do get the OneDrive personal vault, it doesn't look like yours. I think I'll throw my PC into the river.
