Saturday, March 11, 2017

How to remove OneDrive for Business / OneDrive Personal link from the Explorer Side Panel in Windows OS


For OneDrive for Business please follow the below steps:

Go to Run > Type Regedit > Search for "OneDrive - Company Name" and you will find the location

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX}

Where In the subkey System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree changed the DWORD from 1 to 0.

Important Note: Make sure you take a back up of registry before making any changes.



For OneDrive Personal
Go to Run > Type Regedit > Search for "OneDrive - Personal" you will find the location
Where In the subkey System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree changed the DWORD from 1 to 0.



For Personal mostly the key would be same {HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}.


Important Note: Make sure you take a back up of registry before making any changes.


After making changes in registry in both scenario restart the system and check you should not view the link anymore.

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