I was able to get rid of the button like this:
- Open RegEdit
- Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StorageProvider\OneDrive
- Remove or rename the key StorageProviderKnownFolderSyncInfoSourceFactory
- Restart Windows Explorer
Remove "Start back up" option in file explorer
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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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BryceSor 5,505 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2024-08-18T21:26:43+00:00 Hi Sir Blain,
Tabs are great in explorer, and I use them a lot, never seen any slow down at all. .
If you don't like something, use the feedback hub and if you get enough people behind your idea things will get changed.
win key + F
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Anonymous
2024-08-18T22:28:44+00:00 Tabs are great.
Who said anything about a slowdown. We're complaining about a backup functionality that we don't want, but can't turn off. We have no 'opt out' option.
And while the existence doesn't slow Explorer down, it does change the UI in a significant way that affects productivity. They put the button at the Address Bar space, which reduces the size of that and renders it much less useful than it was before. It functions less usefully than before because of the button.
The reason that it is there—in our face—where we can't ignore it is not lost on us that understand marketing. And since there is no mechanism for turning it off, we are repeatedly exposed to it.
If you have used Explorer as long as I (since its inception), you would know that this once useful and robust tool has become incredibly buggy over the years. Explorer reliability AND usability factors have gone down hill, steadily.
Many of us frustrated over the reduced usefulness of this CORE Windows component are disappointed to see all efforts going into Cloud Storage Sales Marketing and none on regression of bugs. Fix refresh, fix Views, fix search, fix all the things that are being punted as "Won't Fix—does not meet the bar" because marketing is higher priority.
Chris