Here's how to permanently wipe OneDrive folders from your PC if they keep recreating themselves

I don’t even know where to start on what a pain this damn windows box has been all week. Anyways, if one drive became sentient and installed itself and then WILL NOT remove the folders from you computer, I found a solution. This is a very big problem when you have to edit packages and environment variables for Houdini and other applications. Anyways, here’s the Fix.


. Press the Windows key and type "Regedit" to search for the Registry Editor. Click it to open it up.

2. Copy/paste this string into the address bar at the top and hit enter: 

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

3. The fix is simple. Right-click on each entry in the Name column that has “OneDrive” and hit Modify. Delete "OneDrive\" from the address string and hit OK. Do this for any and all entries where OneDrive shows up. 


Wes Fenlon, you are a true god among us. This has been messing with so much crap on this system and nothing else would remove that damn folder….