It’s not a bad idea to go through the various settings here to ensure your system is as secure as possible. It’ll take you to the System Settings page for applications on your Win10 system: You can see the match – Apps & features – so go ahead and click or tap on it to proceed.
Let’s get rid of this and let you hide OneDrive from now on! To do that, go to the Start menu and search for “apps”:
Your window probably prompts you to log in, which I’m guessing does not make you happy so much. Since I’m logged in there’s no tiny warning symbol and if I click on the icon, I get a little window that ensures everything’s in sync and updated: You can see the cloud icon in the middle. Most likely, you are already having its little icon show up on the Taskbar, though: You can, however, stop it from launching at boot up and then as long as you don’t access it, you should be able to ignore it! Turns out that it’s pretty much impossible to completely eradicate OneDrive from your Windows system because it’s rather baked into much of the modern Microsoft software, including Windows itself. I have OneDrive set up, but never use it, fyi.Īnd so, let’s get back to your question. Both have worked great for years and are completely invisible 99% of the time. They are SpiderOak, Wuala and Tresorit, if you’re curious.Īt AskDaveTaylor we utilize two primary cloud storage systems: iDrive for secure system backups of our computers and Dropbox for photo sharing and other document sharing. Lifehacker has a good article where they outline three obscure services more interested in helping you use cloud storage while retaining your document privacy that you might want to read. It is true that your files end up stored on remote systems that you don’t have control over, but there are also some services that are focused on encryption and privacy. Not sure where you enmity towards cloud storage and backup services comes from given that tens of millions of users utilize these handy services on a daily basis.
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