Windows 10 One Drive is a nuisance and difficult to control when one has gigabytes of photos. I need to remove it from my computer and not get errors afterwards. Help would be appreciated.
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I don't use or want to use OneDrive, but after upgrading to Windows 10 it's been installed automatically and added to the sidebar of every explorer window:    I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of it. I can't uninstall it like a normal app, and I can't seem to unpin it in Explorer's options.  I tried following  to getting rid of it, but that seems to only remove stored OneDrive files.  I've also tried following another  and , but I can't seem to edit group policies on my computer (maybe because I upgraded from Win7 Home Premium?).  All I would really like is to be able to remove the OneDrive shortcut from my explorer sidebar, though being able to uninstall OneDrive would be a bonus.  I'm not sure what I should try now. Is there a way to remove OneDrive from Windows 10?
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I'm using the  (unified for both personal and business account) and I configured two accounts on it:   My personal account (the same I log in on Windows) My business account   Some months ago I left my previous company and I have no more access to the second account (the business one) and every time I login on Windows 10 I receive a message saying that username or password are wrong.  It's quite annoying and I would like to remove this account, but I can't since there is no "unlink" button on the settings window of OneDrive (probably because it's stuck at the login phase).    What could I do? Is there any "manual" trick (e.g. removing the account from a configuration file or the Windows register)?  Thanks!
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I've been using Windows 10 for a couple of month now (joined the Insider Preview).  Now my hard drive started ticking so I've bought a new SSD and I want to move the windows installation to the new hard drive, which has been connected to the computer (unpartitioned). I don't mind and I even prefer reinstalling it over again.   Since I have the free version of Windows 10 pro, can I still reinstall it anew? Does the windows 10 installation offer disk management and partition like the older Windows installations used to? How should I reinstall Winodws 10 x64 the easiest but still remain on free mode?
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I'm a web developer and I have Windows 10 installed on a very small SSD (128GB).  The problem is, when I want to save my file to a cloud service, I need to store the files on my computer, so that the OneDrive or the Google Drive client can synchronize them.  My free space is very low, so I can't afford that.  Is it possible to save files to the cloud (directly), without them needing to first download them to my computer?
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On my Windows 10 drive I have the following partitions    How can I extend the C partition so that it uses the (Extended) "Free space" partition?  The extend option is greyed out when right clicking the C partition    Deleting the free partition gives the following error     There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation
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Help I want to remove my partitions everything apart from my windows 7 how can I do this ?
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I started getting warnings about running out of space on my E: drive.  I've read many articles, threads and posts online about how to clean the drive but none of them resolved my issue.  My machine specs:  OS: Win 10 Pro  Version: 1803  OS build: 17134.1  I disabled hiding of protected/system files to see what's on the E: drive but I don't see any clutter. I ran the disk clean up several time as an admin to no avail. Any tips and suggestions how to clean up the E: drive would be much appreciated! Thanks.
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tl;dr: Is there a way to batch-view + restore items that have been quarantined by Windows (10) Defender?  In Windows 10, to restore a quarantined file from Windows Defender -- which silently whisks files away into quarantine, willy-nilly, with no indication or heads-up about it -- requires an absurd number of clicks:    Click Start button Type Virus (Protection) and click/enter Click "Threat history" Click (the wholly unnecessary) drop-down arrow on an individual threat (...look at all the open unused space to the right -- display the "extra" info and shift the buttons over there, no drop-down necessary!) Click "See details" Click "Yes" to UAC prompt Now finally able see the filename this threat pertains to (...why isn't the filename the default piece of information shown?! And that's assuming only one piece of info can be shown upfront per entry, which is nonsensical) Click "OK" on the popup modal Click "Restore" button Click "Yes" to UAC prompt (again)   ...one quarantined file down. High-fii-ive!  I was hoping that NirSoft, i.e. the hero that Gotham needs, may have come to the rescue with a utility that could connect into the Windows Defender backend to display all threat + quarantine information for everything all at once, in tabular format, and, if possible, the spectacular ability to batch-select items and restore (or delete) them all at once, vs. the savage click-fest necessitated via Windows 10's "Control-Settings-Control-Panel" ...and for every individual item. But unfortunately, to no avail (bless his freedom-fighting heart nonetheless, however).  It goes without saying, but this is just one drop in an oceanic-sized bucket of my Windows 10 design gripes. Help us Obi-Win7-Kenobi. You're our only hope.
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I have recently upgraded my desktop PC and installed a SSD as system drive.   I read somewhere that these drives "don't like" being written on too much and that one needs to enable/disable certain OS features for such drives.  I checked the properties for the drive C: in Windows 8 and here's what I got.      Q1: As you see Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties is checked. Does it need to be checked for that drive?  Q2: Is there anything else that I need to change in the settings to accommodate for the SSD?
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I'm currently dual-booting to either Ubuntu 10.10 or Windows XP. However, I rarely use windows and would like to remove it.  I've use the Ubuntu live CD to access GParted. I've also deleted the windows partitions (I think), which were labeled both ntfs and fat32.  I'm just not sure how to extend the Ubuntu partition to cover the unallocated space. Furthermore, how do I deal with the 'key' designations, which state that a partition is busy.  Help!
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I've got 40GB of photos from my old Picasa Web Albums service and now I've just cancelled my storage plan.  Is there any way to remove all the photos and albums?  I searched a lot and I have no clue how to do it, I'm not going to delete near 400 albums individually, and obviously, not paying again for the storage plan.  I remember old days when google-cli was able to do this kind of stuff, but sadly it seems abandoned.
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Windows Defender very quickly popped up a notification saying it has taken action to prevent against malware. I need to know the details. This happened while I was downloading pictures from Google Photos, but I also have a hunch that a program I recently installed to improved privacy on Windows 10 warned it sometimes gets flagged as malware.   To be clear I'd like to know which file was detected, if it was deleted or quarantined, and which virus it was detected as.
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My laptop has Windows 7 home premium. OS is installed on C drive. The C drive has some 155 GB but currently only 1.17 GB is free. I deleted contents of my download folder and moved the contents from my desktop and my documents. this freed some 50 GB. but within minutes it was full again. ran disk cleanup and gained some 2 GB. i checked size of all the folders ignored large sized windows and program files and program files (x86). Was baffled when users folder said 110 GB. went to my user folder and selected all files n checked properties it showed under 5 GB. So if i check my user folders properties it says 110 GB but if i check properties of its content its under 5 GB. BTW I am not using any anti virus program. Do you guys have any idea whats going on. Is my laptop possessed or something? :P Please help me out.
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Hello. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. The operation took less than a second and gave no warning. I tried erasing the flash drive and it took about a minute, but it took but a second to erase the 1 TB drive, which is very surprising.  Please help, Gabriel
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A Windows-7 laptop was upgraded to Windows-10 during the Microsoft free upgrade period when they were nudging users to migrate away from 7 to 10.  The system is sluggish and crash prone: I would like create a fresh install with a new SSD from a Windows 10 install .iso burned to a USB drive.  Is it possible (and how can) the the license-key from the old drive be recovered and migrated to a fresh install?   If this is not the right question to ask, I would appreciate edits to the questions: thank you.
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(I am running Windows 7.)  Yesterday I did some clean-up and moved some mp4 files from my desktop to "My Videos".  Later I got a message that my OneDrive was almost full.  Then I realized that when I had put the videos into "My Videos", they magically got put into OneDrive as well.  Deleting them from OneDrive deleted them from "My Videos" as well.  Restoring them in the Recycle Bin put them back into both places.  Right-clicking OneDrive, it appeared that this shouldn't have happened, since   under Settings, "Let me use OneDrive to fetch any of my files on this PC" was not checked; under Auto Save, "Automatically save photos and videos to OneDrive whenever I connect a camera, phone, or other devices to my PC" was not checked either.   (My answer appears below -- if someone has an alternative answer I'm all ears.)
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After I use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' notification area widget, how do I get Windows to re-attach a USB device (i.e. a USB drive) without having to unplug and plug it in again?