Remove "Sign in to turn on offline access to your lists" OneDrive notification after removing work account that is no longer used

Anonymous
2022-10-23T14:14:08+00:00

I have recently removed a work account from my Windows 11 installation in my desktop and laptop. While the process has been smooth, there is however a leftover notification that appears during Windows start-up on both devices:

From OneDrive: "Sign in to turn on offline access to your lists"

When clicking on it, it attempts to log into the work account that I have already removed! Unfortunately I am unable to disable this notification from appearing every time I start the PC or laptop. I even attempted to unlink all accounts from OneDrive, and cleared all credentials in the hope that this notification no longer appears; however, after linking back my personal account, it still appears on Windows start-up.

How can I make sure that this notification no longer appears? Are there any places where the work account email is still cached? Can those entries be removed so that this is solved?

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Anonymous
2023-06-12T11:03:10+00:00

Remove on HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run the key Microsoft.Lists that points towards C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\23.071.0402.0001\Microsoft.SharePoint.exe

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It's only been a couple of start ups, but this gets my vote as the simple solution, nothing else needed. I knew someone would come up with it, brilliant, thank you for fixing this annoying problem.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-12-15T10:18:17+00:00

    Indeed, nice find. Many thanks for sharing.

    Other than @Luke747 I didn't have an error message upon restart -- probably because I did some very rigorous registry cleanup before.

    For me the "Sharepoint" messages are very seldom and spurious, so it would typically take many weeks for them to return -- if at all.

    Let's see whether the above has now finally fixed it...

    Thanks again.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-15T09:25:19+00:00

    Nice find, @ArnieT! Have followed your instructions, indeed found a Business1 folder. Have deleted it without issues. Will report back in a week or so whether the notifications have disappeared.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-15T09:13:46+00:00

    Hello,

    I have done the following:

    1. Close all running OneDrive and Sharepoint processes.
    2. Go to C:\Users\PROFILENAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\settings

    2.1. There should be folders named Business and Personal. Business will have a digit at the end. Delete all Business folders.

    1. Start OneDrive client again. It may throw an error stating that it has issues to sync.
    2. Kill and reopen OneDrive client again. It should be fine now.

    4.1. Optionally you may try to restart the device to see if it's alright.

    Try it and let us know.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-12T18:07:08+00:00

    Have the exact same issue; only started appearing recently after removing my work account months ago. No idea how to disable this.

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