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From: Big Al <alan@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: OneDrive removal
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:10:55 -0400
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On 3/21/24 05:09 AM, Bob Henson wrote:
> Has anyone managed to successfully remove OneDrive entirely from Windows 11? I can turn off the 
> directory backups to the cloud and uninstall OneDrive, but I cannot reset the OneDrive directories 
> back to the Windows 11 defaults. OneDrive sets the documents directory, for example, to 
> c:\users\username\onedrive\documents. I cannot reset this to the original Windows 11 default of 
> c:\users\username\documents.
> 
> It should be simple - right click the new OneDrive directory > properties >  location > and then 
> either "move" the directory to the required directory or reset to "default". This is where it fails 
> - the directory won't reset. I haven't tried resetting the directory to anything other than the 
> original Windows default because a) I don't want to do that b) it might screw up something else.
> 
> I've googled it extensively and all the articles I've found suggest the methods should work, but 
> they don't - not here anyway. I can, of course, leave well alone and carry on as now - but I'd 
> rather not if there is a safe way. Any ideas not involving complete system resets, please?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob
Read between the lines on this, but I had the same issue.  Picture,Documents seemed to be my worst 
issue.   I found/created/stole these two batch files.   I would tell you to run them but I'm not 
sure they were my fix.   Yeh! I know I'm not much help.   But it might point you where to look.

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@echo off
:: Created by: Shawn Brink
:: Created on: September 3, 2022
:: Tutorial: 
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/move-or-restore-default-location-of-documents-folder-in-windows-11.8708/

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
timeout /t 2 /nobreak >nul
if not exist "%UserProfile%\Documents" mkdir "%UserProfile%\Documents"
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal" /t 
REG_SZ /d "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents" /f
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v 
"{f42ee2d3-909f-4907-8871-4c22fc0bf756}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %%USERPROFILE%%"\Documents" /f
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "Personal" 
/t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %%USERPROFILE%%"\Documents" /f

attrib +r -s -h "%USERPROFILE%\Documents" /S /D
timeout /t 1 /nobreak >nul
start explorer.exe
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@echo off
:: Created by: Shawn Brink
:: Created on: September 3, 2022
:: Tutorial: 
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/move-or-restore-default-location-of-pictures-folder-in-windows-11.8711/

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
timeout /t 2 /nobreak>null
if not exist "%UserProfile%\Pictures" mkdir "%UserProfile%\Pictures"
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "My Pictures" /t 
REG_SZ /d "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Pictures" /f
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v 
"{0DDD015D-B06C-45D5-8C4C-F59713854639}" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %%USERPROFILE%%"\Pictures" /f
reg add "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v "My 
Pictures" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %%USERPROFILE%%"\Pictures" /f

attrib +r -s -h "%USERPROFILE%\Pictures" /S /D
timeout /t 1 /nobreak>null
start explorer.exe
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