Long time Office users are probably well aware of Upload Center feature present in Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2013, and later versions. Those of you who are new to the word Upload Center probably familiar with the small Upload icon that appears in notification area of the taskbar.
The Office Upload Center feature in Office 2010 and 2013 allows users to easily view the state of files that are being uploaded to a server. That is, the feature is helpful for those users who always save files to their OneDrive (SkyDrive) accounts. For instance, if your internet goes offline when you are editing a file saved in your OneDrive account, Upload Center will temporarily save the file offline so that it can automatically upload the file once your internet connection is up again.
Those of you who don’t use Upload Center might want to just get rid of it. Since Microsoft Office doesn’t offer an easy way to turn off or disable Upload Center, you can follow the given below workarounds to complete disable Upload Center and remove the icon from the notification area of taskbar.
Hide the Upload Center without disabling Upload Center
If you’re looking for a way to always hide the Upload Center icon that appears in the notification area of taskbar without actually disabling the Upload Center, please follow the given below instructions.
Step 1: Click the small Up arrow icon on the right of the taskbar (see picture) and then click Customize link to open Notification Area Icons window.
Step 2: Here, locate the entry named Microsoft Office Document Cache or Microsoft Office Upload Center, and then select Hide icon and notifications option from the drop-down box next to it.
Click OK button.
To completely disable Office Upload Center
Note that I am sure if this method will work with Office 2010.
Step 1: Type Task Scheduler or Schedule Task in the Start menu or Start screen search box and press enter key to open Task Scheduler.
Step 2: On the left-pane of Task Scheduler, click Task Scheduler Library.
Step 3: Now, on the right-side, look for the entry named Microsoft Office 15 Sync Maintenance, right-click on the same, and then click Disable option.
That’s it!
Disable Office 2010 Upload Center using Registry
Note that this method is only for Office 2010 and might not work for Office 2013.
Please backup your Registry or create a manual system restore point before editing the Registry.
Step 1: Open Registry Editor by typing Regedit in Start menu search or Start screen search. Alternatively, you can type Regedit in the Run command box and then press Enter key to open Registry Editor.
Step 2: In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Step 3: On the right-side, look for the entry named OfficeSyncProcess and delete the same. That’s it!
Paul N says
Microsoft won’t be satisfied until everyone is both, on the Cloud and under their complete control.
*** BOTH are dangerous and a HUGE CASH COW ***
As for the Cloud, which so often we hear of Security breeches by companies offering Cloud service and
storing YOUR private data, claiming to be SAFE and SECURE
Cloud Services is nothing but a Cash Cow for companies.
Data stored on the Cloud is shared and sold. another cash cow.
Storage is another form of the cash cow as shown below.
$949.00 if you pay 1TB $13.99 plus tax monthly (based on 5 years) cash cow for cloud owners
or
$ 90.00 if you buy 1TB hard drive retail incl. tax (based on min 5 years life)
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HD: To be hacked you have to be targeted and specifically hacked.
or
CLOUD: One of millions of people on a cloud server all hacked at the same time.
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HD: Stored on your computer and safe depending on your security.
or
Cloud: Stored on server and safe depending on their security, both internal and external.
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HD: Private data remains private and is YOURS
or
CLOUD: Cannot be considered private and is NOT your data.
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Serious Waste of Time says
Goto Start
Delete Sys32
Install Gentoo
365. What a waste of time.
ZeusWept says
None of these methods worked for me, the registry entry did not exist and removing MSOSYNC from the task manager was fine for the session only. I removed the process and went to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15 where I renamed the file MSOSYNC.EXE – I have no idea yet if it will re-appear but at the moment it’s gone and that’s the ONLY way it has gone for me (Win7 Home Prem, Office ProPlus 2013)
JB says
None of the above worked for me (running W7 / Office 2013)
However, the following did…
Control Panel > Programs & features > Select Microsoft Office > Select “Change” > Select “Add or remove features” > Select “One Drive” > Select “Not available”.
dp says
I did all that and more but it still comes back
admin says
Thanks, Satheesh for the info.
Satheesh Donthy says
Goto Start
Run Windows Task Manager
Find all tasks related to Microsoft Office Sync
Disable them all
Your computer will start functioning normally