Windows 10 – Duplicated OneDrive Icon in Explorer

EDIT: New technique.

Since 2 upgrades ago, you can now simply uninstall Microsoft OneDrive if you don't plan to use it.

To do so, open Settings->Apps and from the list, search for "Microsoft OneDrive", then click uninstall.

Because this is an app not a program, it is not listed as program in the Control Panel.

EDIT: Small addition to this update: Given that you actually uninstall the app, it seems that the app is not being reinstalled after an upgrade, whereas with the techniques below, it will come back as the app itself is being reinstalled. So if you uninstall OneDrive, it will be gone until you reinstall it through the Windows Store.

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OneDrive also was part of windows 8, except that there, it was hidden. That gave much more trouble for when you actually wanted to use it vs not wanting to use it.

But it seems that disabling (not entirely getting rid of) is not that hard.

To stop OneDrive from starting at boot

Remove its startup entry from the registry, which is located here:

HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

If you delete the OneDrive entry there, and either use task manager to kill the process, right click the icon and choose exit or reboot, OneDrive will not be loaded anymore.

Now you can remove the OneDrive folder located at C:\Users\%USERNAME%\OneDrive

To remove OneDrive from the Explorer sidebar

With a bit of searching and digging, I found this key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A52BBA46-E9E1-435f-B3D9-28DAA648C0F6}] which lead me to the relevant CLSID, which is: {018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}

So the registry key you want to remove is this one:

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

If you go to this key, it should say OneDrive and should have the following subfolders: DefaultIcon, InProcServer32, Instance and ShellFolder, where Instance has another subfolder named InitPropertyBag.

This is a hacky, but the only working solution:

1. First, close OneDrive: Click the icon in the taskbar, select More... then Close OneDrive
2. Next open Registry Explorer: Press Win + R, then type regedit and hit enter.
3. Press Ctrl + F to search for all occurrences of OneDrive - <Company> and replace these with the new desired name.
4. For all files in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive (i.e., enter %AppData%\..\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive in the address bar) and subfolders, replace all occurrences of OneDrive - <Company> with the new desired name.
5. Rename your original OneDrive - <Company> folder to the new desired name.
6. Reopen OneDrive.
7. OneDrive might realize that the folder name has been change and will ask to set up the OneDrive folder again. Do not do this or else your work will be reverted!

Consider voting for the Rename-OneDrive-Root-Folder feature on UserVoice:

• https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/913522-onedrive-on-windows/suggestions/37945567-allow-users-to-change-the-onedrive-folder-director
• https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/913522-onedrive-on-windows/suggestions/8729746-allow-onedrive-for-business-folder-to-be-renamed