Disable the Microsoft Office Upload Center

Disable the Microsoft Office Upload Center

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Right-click on the OneDrive icon in the System Tray area, or start OneDrive. Select Settings

and swith to the Office tab.

You disable the Upload Center if you uncheck "Use Office 2016 to sync Office files that I open".

A restart should complete the process and Office Upload Center should not run anymore on the system.

Other solutions

Here is a quick list of other suggestions:

  1. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

  2. in the Registry Editor and delete the OfficeSyncProcess there.

  3. Open the Windows Task Scheduler,

  4. and disable the Microsoft Office [version] Sync Maintenance for [username] task.

  5. Rename the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\msosync.exe.

  6. This may throw errors however.

Check out this discussion on Superuser for additional tips on dealing with the Upload Center.

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