Disable Microsoft Office Upload Center

Question

With the new Office 2013, a new Microsoft Office Upload Center is started. But I don't use that and want to remove it completely (not just hiding).

How can I remove that program completely?

Answer 1

"You can't disable it and if you remove it from start up it still loads up anyway. All you can do is open task manager and end the process for MSOSYNC.EXE, pretty lame I know, but there's no way of disabling it and this info is coming from the office365 forum!"

Not true.

You can disable the Microsoft Office Upload Center easily in the registry- but this is the only way.

Microsoft went out of their way to stop people from doing this in the GUI, and even MSCONFIG won't work.

Here's the registry fix:

Locate:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

and delete the OfficeSyncProcess entry that points to the current location of MSOSYNC.EXE.

Microsoft's arrogance on this whole issue is astonishing:

Many people are turning to forums in frustration to turn off this feature.

These people want to disable it, so do these, and these, and even these.

It shouldn't be enabled automatically when you simply run SharePoint/SkyDrive once- and if it is, then it should be possible to turn it off without rolling up your sleeves and hacking the registry.

Poor show, Microsoft. Poor show.

Answer 2

You can't disable it and if you remove it from start up it still loads up anyway. All you can do is open task manager and end the process for MSOSYNC.EXE, pretty lame I know, but there's no way of disabling it and this info is coming from the office365 forum!

Answer 3

To disable/configure this open up Task Scheduler and click on the Task Scheduler Library node. You should see a task here labelled 'Microsoft Office 15 Sync Maintenance for USERNAME'. Change the properties of this to amend the trigger that starts the job. For instance, you can delete the trigger that starts on user log on.