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Hide or Remove OneDrive icon from File Explorer in Windows 10 -  thats what we gonna

see in this post - Works on Windows 10 Creators Update, Windows 10

Anniversary Update, and other editions of Windows like Windows 10 earlier builds like Aug 2015

and Nov 2015 builds.

In our last post we had seen how to stop OneDrive Sync in Windows 10 which explains the concept

of disabling OneDrive sync in Windows 10 without any software..

This post is a continuation of the last post, which means even though we had hided OneDrive from 

Windows 10 but,it will still appear on File Explorer. So, this post shows how to hide OneDrive 

from File Explorer in Windows 10.

Do you need any software ?

No, you dont need to download software to hide OneDrive in file explorer of Windows 10, just

follow the below steps..

How to hide OneDrive icon in File Explorer in Windows 10...



1) First Open Registry Editor

[ Helpful link :How to Open registry editor in Windows 10]

2) Navigate to the following...

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}

3) Now, on your right pane, you can find an item named

System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree

4) Double click on it

5) You will see 1 in the value data field.

6) Delete the value 1 on the box

7) Now, the box will be empty Type 0.

8) Click on OK.

Thats it..

But, if you are using x64 Bit version of Windows 10

[ Helpful link : How to Find what version of Windows you are using]

then, do the following..

How to hide OneDrive icon from File Explorer in x64 version of Windows 10

1) First Open Registry Editor

[ Helpful link :How to Open registry editor in Windows 10]

2) Navigate to the following...

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWow6432NODECLSID{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-

224DE2ED1FE6}

3) Now, on your right pane, you can find an item named

System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree

4) Double click on it

5) You will see 1 in the value data field.

6) Delete the value 1 on the box

7) Now, the box will be empty Type 0.

8) Click on OK.

Like this you can hide OneDrive on any Windows 10 Laptop and Windows 10 desktop.

Hope it is helpful..

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