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
    2023-12-11T09:03:50+00:00

    I hope this isn't too far off topic, but a couple of days ago I saved a Word document to my desktop (which is not backed up to Onedrive, depite the MS nags). Word immediately produced a bright orange pop-up telling me to link the Desktop folder to Onedrive for backup purposes.

    In other words, MS has stepped up its campaign to push people into linking Desktop / Documents etc to Onedrive, by adding prompts to Office applications. I submitted feedback on this, but I doubt if they will take any notice.

    I am a Onedrive user, but don't I want to put folders outside the Onedrive tree on Onedrive. This seems to be beyond MS's comprehension.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-10T17:07:29+00:00

    Even if there is a registry hack, that's very unfriendly to most of the world.

    This is, pure and simple, a marketing thing.

    Chris

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-10T16:35:55+00:00

    This is very annoying and I can't believe there's no way to remove it!

    I was hoping someone might have found a registry hack for this, but can't find one anywhere. What the heck?!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-06T02:52:51+00:00

    Honestly, the best option at this time is to get a third party File Explorer App (such as the Files App in the Microsoft Store, which recently got a whole host of nice improvements). Filing a report in the Feedback Hub is generally useless. If the press starts making noise about something it will sometimes convince MS to make a change, so that might be worth pursuing. But one of the most effective ways to get change is to simply stop using the feature until it is fixed. For many of us, uninstalling OneDrive isn't a viable option. However one can use an alternative to File Explorer.

    I tried it, liked it, and decided to replace file explorer with it. Made the backup of the registry prior to running the provided link to change out file explorer.

    The change out worked. No problem there. Unfortunately, since I always double check an install, I found out the registry import was not successful. So now it appears I am stuck with Files whether I like it or not.

    So not a choice I am going to recommend even though I am stuck with it for now.

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