Remove OneDrive from the left-hand column of the Win10 File Explorer

If you do not want to use OneDrive cloud services (after all, the domestic cloud service is not bad), every time you open the Windows 10? File explorer, the? OneDrive? Button in the left column may be a little off the hook. May consider to delete this link button. Note that instead of stopping the OneDrive® cloud service, just delete that link button.

Meet OneDrive in Windows 10 File Explorer.

Click Start File Explorer on the taskbar and open OneDrive in the left navigation when it opens.

This link button is certainly handy for anyone using OneDrive Cloud Services; however, it is a bit of an issue for those who are not using it, leaving the entire list of resources down.

We started to delete it.

Press Ctrl + q key combination, call the implementation of small Na Search: Enter in the search box: regedit; Xiao na shows the "best match" at the top, we press the Enter.

This starts the Registry Editor.

It's an old friend, however, and the Windows performance tuning of the last century can not be separated from it.

We press Ctrl + f key combination, the pop-up search dialog box, we insert the curly brackets inside the following content, that is, the following part of the bold italics:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ CLSID \ {018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}

Then click the "Find Next" button.

After a period of searching, the registry editor is located where we want to find it.

Look to the right, there is a System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree DWORD, it's the default value is 1. To get OneDrive to disappear from the file explorer in Windows 10, let's change it to zero.

Immediate effect, we open the file Explorer, the left navigation bar has no entry of OneDrive.

Compare the figure in step 1.

If you want to recover the OneDrive icon again, change the 0 to 1 in Step 6.