Uninstall/Enable/Disable Sky Drive From Windows 8 or 8.1

Microsoft windows 8 or 8.1 having many things, some things are excellent for us and some things are frustrating for use. Sky Drive synchronisation with cloud it will hang up working speed. When we do not use internet and sky drive will comes again and again it will disturb to us. It takes space on your laptop which is not necessary to you. Here my suggestion is for better performances for work just disable it and when you require again enable it. We can do by Group Policy Editor, this sounds like hard work for them who are not much technically, but it is very easy for non technically users also.

Here look below steps for how to do it

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Step 1

You need to open “Group Policy Editor” for that just go to Run and type gpedit.msc and click on OK.

Step 2

Now it will open Local Group Policy Editor Window. Navigate to Computer Configuration/ Administrative templates/ Windows Components / SkyDrive from left side column.

Step 3

Select SkyDrive, You can see three options in Right side column. There double click on the setting

 Prevent the usage of SkyDrive for file storage. Now check the radio button Enable and click Apply

then OK.  For applying changes once restart your computer or Laptop.

Step 4

For bring back SkyDrive simply check the radio button Disable Restart required. From removing it

from Tiled Modern UI Screen, simply right click on the icon and click unpin from start. for again pin

it to screen you need to right click the program and select pin to start.