How can I turn off the sync function my Microsoft account from my windows 11 laptop?

Anonymous
2022-09-20T00:37:59+00:00

I really want to un sync my windows 11 laptop from my desktop computer connected with the same Microsoft account. Every time I delete something on my laptop to free up space I don’t want it to be deleted from desktop. How do I change this? Please and thank you for your time.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-16T15:34:23+00:00

    My computer does not have that option to slide the bar to off????????????

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-20T04:45:24+00:00

    Hi I have the same issue, I just wanted a clean reinstall of Windows 11 as I have computers in every room

    media centre, gaming pc, etc I need them to be separate .. And other than creating a new microsoft account for every pc.. "10 computers" there appears to be no way to clean reinstall windows..

    And have edge clean with no favourites from pre factory reset..

    A factory reset should be Just that.. a brand new machine.. clean reinstall regardless of the Email Address

    used.. I can maybe understand how someone with only one computer might find such a setting useful

    were their machine to fail at some point and just wanted to resume using their pc with the same settings.

    Or someone transitioning from work to a home pc on a regular basis..

    But for home users or enthusiasts this is a nightmare.. You can remove OneDrive but by the time you have done that all your bookmarks and files have synced . You can immediately proceed to sync settings

    after reinstall but as soon as you log in to microsoft all your files sync before you can disable all the settings.. And once you remove One Drive in control panel you lose that ability to manage sync settings in One Drive..

    What a total Mess...

    I have read a article that you can drill down into the OS and are able to delete the Edge folder which will then allow a clean browser experience.. but what a nuisance

    I am frankly quite annoyed at this experience.. I dont want to sync anything , i never have.. And i dont want to upload or store anything in the cloud.. I just want a clean fresh install of windows..

    Why is that so hard to do..

    Developers are out of touch with reality..

    So I will create a new email address for every pc.. and reformat this pc for the third time today..

    to get the result i require.. what a waste of valuable time...

    regards Andrew

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-20T15:10:16+00:00

    One drive IS ALREADY OFF and not syncing but win 10 still has no "Turn off edge sync".

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-08T23:19:14+00:00

    My mother is having the same issue. There is no button to turn syn all the way off. There are only the individual sliders and all of those have been turned off. Yet, Microsoft edge is still reporting that "syn is on". She is on a work computer and needs to get her information off of it. Is there no answer for Windows 10?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-02T19:21:36+00:00

    No, you are WRONG. Under settings, there is no "accounts" tab. There is a "Profiles" tab, and when I click on that, it shows me my profile; under my avatar, it says "Sync is ON." Even though I have all the siders moved to the left to supposedly turn them off, Sync REMAINS ON. The worst part about this is Sync does not really Sync, it just makes duplicates of everything, over and over. So my Bookmarks have 7, 8, 9 duplicates of each other from everytime this thing syncs. This has been this way since at least Windows 10 and nothing has ever been done about it.

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