Remove "Start back up" option in file explorer

Anonymous
2023-06-20T16:39:54+00:00

Hello,

In the latest release of Windows Insider Home Preview (I have an option everywhere I go in file explorer to "Start Back Up", clicking on it leads me to the onedrive dialogue to back up folders. This is incredibly annoying and I cannot find out how to disable it, even though all my backup features are off.

How can I disable this?

(Preview build 23481)

Windows Insider program | Windows Insider preview | Files, folders, and storage

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Anonymous
2023-12-28T14:32:43+00:00

I was able to get rid of the button like this:

  1. Open RegEdit
  2. Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StorageProvider\OneDrive
  3. Remove or rename the key StorageProviderKnownFolderSyncInfoSourceFactory
  4. Restart Windows Explorer

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-22T17:42:01+00:00

    If i do this the back up button is comming back after reboot the pc.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-28T15:35:18+00:00

    I was able to get rid of the button like this:

    1. Open RegEdit
    2. Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StorageProvider\OneDrive
    3. Remove or rename the key StorageProviderKnownFolderSyncInfoSourceFactory
    4. Restart Windows Explorer

    It appears to work for me.

    I did have to decipher HKCU as HKEY_CURRENT_USER and carefully navigate down the tree to the key location, identify the key (is was the only one for OneDrive, and I renamed it RevokeStorageProviderKnownFolderSyncInfoSourceFactory

    Closed RegEdit

    Opening Explorer, all of the folder addresses I checked appear to be correct without the prompt to backup to OneDrive.

    Thank you very much.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-05T15:33:35+00:00

    Given that this whole new OneDrive-driven feature set is probably meant to sell Cloud Storage to those that go past their free allotment, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this 'lack of choice of folders' is very much by design.

    Chris

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-01T23:48:51+00:00

    You have to be using the latest Windows 11 for it to appear

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