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
    2023-12-29T03:19:00+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

    ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ - THANK YOU!!!

    Two things I would suggest however:

    1. Export/Backup the Key before making any changes.
    2. I suggest not deleting the key, for a couple of reasons. The first is removing the key completely may have unexpected results at some point. The Second is that there is really nothing that would prevent that key from being restored by a future MS update. Instead, after backing up the key, I replaced the value date with {NULL}, which also fixed the issue, as well as provides for a way to "lock" the key from being modified in the future if needed by restricting the permissions to "read only" and unlocking write permissions to the key only as needed.

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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
    2023-12-28T15:27:59+00:00

    I cannot express my joy enough for you finding this: thank you so much!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-13T07:01:59+00:00

    Going to the original question, I never see it. I don't know if it is because I keep the link always active, phone link, as a second factor Google verification, so once checked in, and as long as I always enter my pin if it's needed, then, my back up goes auto, when whenever it needs to and I am not using too much of the PC, but those were also options I choose myself

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