How to remove the Skydrive shortcut in the Win8.1 navigation pane

It's just a shortcut. If you want to delete skydrive in Windows
8.1, you can try local account or reinstall Win8.1. During system deployment setup, choose not to enable skydrive syncWindows
8.1 settings.

The following involves the registry operation, there are considerable risks, please be cautious of the intention to modify, and use the Rubik's Cube
Master (download) to do a backup job.

Find the following key values ​​in the registry

“[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID\\{8E74D236-7F35-4720-B138-1FED0B85EA75}\\ShellFolder]”

Modify the right side DWORD (32-bit) value Attributes key value

hexadecimal f080004d changed to f090004d

If you encounter permission problems, right click ShellFolder key value, select &ldquo ;Permissions""Advanced"Advanced&"

Click on the "owner" "change" "change" to lower the owner, change from System to Users

Type “users” in the text box below the input object name to be selected, OK, exit

back ShellFolder's rights management window, click "Add" in the lower left corner, click

Click on the new dialog box, click “select body”, type "“users” again, check & ldquo; Full Control & rdquo;

Then all the way & ldquo; OK & rdquo;, exit all open dialogs.

Try to modify the key value again.

Close the registry, restart file resource management, Skydrive in the navigation pane disappears, and does not affect the synchronization function of Skydrive.