Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Removing the SkyDrive Pro Explorer Context Menu item...

How-To Geek - How to Remove SkyDrive Pro from Your Right-Click Context Menu

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Install Microsoft Office 2013 and you may see a grayed out “SkyDrive Pro” option in your context menu. This option appears whenever you right-click a file or folder, but it’s useless if you don’t use SharePoint.

SkyDrive Pro is used to sync files with a Microsoft SharePoint server, as Microsoft has explained. It is different from Microsoft’s consumer-focused SkyDrive client and removing this option shouldn’t prevent the normal SkyDrive software from functioning.

Removing SkyDrive Pro

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Having previously installed and uninstalled Office 2013, this, the SkyDrive Pro context menu item, has been hanging around, mocking me. Today, after seeing this post I decided it was time to make it finally go away.

The instructions worked like a charm.

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2 comments:

  1. Zia KayaniFri Mar 15, 08:26:00 AM PDT

    check this...

    http://www.howtogeek.com/136176/how-to-remove-skydrive-pro-from-your-right-click-context-menu/

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  2. GregFri Mar 15, 08:41:00 AM PDT

    @Zia Kayani That's the article I already referenced... :)

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