Are you look at disabling the ability to "Save to Web" or (for some reason) just removing upload center?

I expect you've seen this and your question is more specific, but in-case not ...

"Save to Web" can be removed via:
Office 2010\Miscellaneous\"Do Not allow Save to Web integration"
Explain Text:
"This policy setting removes the Save to Web option from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Backstage view. 
 If you enable this policy setting, all Save to Web functionality is removed from the Backstage view. 
 If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Save to Web option is available in the Backstage view."

Best regards

- AL

• Marked as answer by Sean Fr - MSFTMicrosoft employee Friday, August 06, 2010 6:32 PM
• Unmarked as answer by Mykel Monday, August 09, 2010 3:27 PM

Are you look at disabling the ability to "Save to Web" or (for some reason) just removing upload center?

I expect you've seen this and your question is more specific, but in-case not ...

"Save to Web" can be removed via:
Office 2010\Miscellaneous\"Do Not allow Save to Web integration"
Explain Text:
"This policy setting removes the Save to Web option from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Backstage view. 
 If you enable this policy setting, all Save to Web functionality is removed from the Backstage view. 
 If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Save to Web option is available in the Backstage view."

Best regards

- AL

• Marked as answer by Sean Fr - MSFTMicrosoft employee Friday, August 06, 2010 6:32 PM
• Unmarked as answer by Mykel Monday, August 09, 2010 3:27 PM

Are you look at disabling the ability to "Save to Web" or (for some reason) just removing upload center?

I expect you've seen this and your question is more specific, but in-case not ...

"Save to Web" can be removed via:
Office 2010\Miscellaneous\"Do Not allow Save to Web integration"
Explain Text:
"This policy setting removes the Save to Web option from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Backstage view. 
 If you enable this policy setting, all Save to Web functionality is removed from the Backstage view. 
 If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Save to Web option is available in the Backstage view."

Best regards

- AL

• Marked as answer by Sean Fr - MSFTMicrosoft employee Friday, August 06, 2010 6:32 PM
• Unmarked as answer by Mykel Monday, August 09, 2010 3:27 PM

is there anyway in OCT 2010 to remove the upload center when Office is installed? i looked thru and didnt see anything but maybe i missed it.

Are you look at disabling the ability to "Save to Web" or (for some reason) just removing upload center?

I expect you've seen this and your question is more specific, but in-case not ...

"Save to Web" can be removed via:
Office 2010\Miscellaneous\"Do Not allow Save to Web integration"
Explain Text:
"This policy setting removes the Save to Web option from the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Backstage view. 
 If you enable this policy setting, all Save to Web functionality is removed from the Backstage view. 
 If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Save to Web option is available in the Backstage view."

Best regards

- AL

Hey Mykel,

We don't recommend disabling the upload center and do not provide a way to do so using the OCT.

Thanks.

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

The Upload Center is used whenever you save documents to SkyDrive and SharePoint. It manages uploading docs and synchronizing changes to them. If you never save/edit/share documents on SkyDrive or SharePoint then you won’t use this feature and can disable it.

The original question asked was how to disable the upload center using the OCT. That can’t be done. To disable the Office 2010 Upload Center you can run msconfig, click “Startup” and remove the check next to “Microsoft Office 2010” that references MSOSYNC.EXE”.

Note that if you try to upload/save anything to SkyDrive or SharePoint the Upload Center will start and may add an entry to start with your computer. If that happens you will need to remove it again using msconfig.

You do realize that the whole world has not bought into SkyDrive and Sharepoint don't you? For companies concerned with security blind opening up these holes are a major mistake and there should be an option besides MS config to get rid of it.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

You do realize that the whole world has not bought into SkyDrive and Sharepoint don't you? For companies concerned with security blind opening up these holes are a major mistake and there should be an option besides MS config to get rid of it.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

You do realize that the whole world has not bought into SkyDrive and Sharepoint don't you? For companies concerned with security blind opening up these holes are a major mistake and there should be an option besides MS config to get rid of it.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

You do realize that the whole world has not bought into SkyDrive and Sharepoint don't you? For companies concerned with security blind opening up these holes are a major mistake and there should be an option besides MS config to get rid of it.

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

 

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

 

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

 

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

• Proposed as answer by jmidnite Monday, February 28, 2011 3:39 AM

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

 

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

 

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

 

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

• Proposed as answer by jmidnite Monday, February 28, 2011 3:39 AM

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

 

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

 

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

 

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

• Proposed as answer by jmidnite Monday, February 28, 2011 3:39 AM

Some friendly, helpful person decided to share a file with me, and that kind person decided to use their new toy -- SharePoint.

Now I have an icon in my Notification area, that will not go away.. some piece of garbage called Microsoft Office Upload Center.

I already used MSCONFIG, but, 'lo -- there it be again. I guess I have to go back, and try it again.. oops! It isn't listed! (But it's running.. let's try renaming the .exe, as Vista won't let me delete it..).

 

Like.. after using computers for 20-something years, I need such mandatory assistance!

 

To be direct - if I had the person responsible for making this decision in front of me, the language I would use would not be fit to print.

 

Joe User 70 and ITSA said it very well. I hope someone is listening.

Since I don't use Sharepoint whatsoever, I just set Sharepoint to Unavailable during custom install. No unwanted Upload Manager gremlins after that... This solution doesn't solve the problems of the world for sure, but it served its purpose for this particular scenario. Not sure if this would work if Sharepoint was already installed then uninstalled.

Best regards!

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

Since I don't use Sharepoint whatsoever, I just set Sharepoint to Unavailable during custom install. No unwanted Upload Manager gremlins after that... This solution doesn't solve the problems of the world for sure, but it served its purpose for this particular scenario. Not sure if this would work if Sharepoint was already installed then uninstalled.

Best regards!

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

Since I don't use Sharepoint whatsoever, I just set Sharepoint to Unavailable during custom install. No unwanted Upload Manager gremlins after that... This solution doesn't solve the problems of the world for sure, but it served its purpose for this particular scenario. Not sure if this would work if Sharepoint was already installed then uninstalled.

Best regards!

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

Since I don't use Sharepoint whatsoever, I just set Sharepoint to Unavailable during custom install. No unwanted Upload Manager gremlins after that... This solution doesn't solve the problems of the world for sure, but it served its purpose for this particular scenario. Not sure if this would work if Sharepoint was already installed then uninstalled.

Best regards!

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

I was able to prevent this application from launching by removing the entry in the registry which launches the software.  I found it in the user key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OfficeSyncProcess

I didn't like the idea of using msconfig for 2 reasons:

1) the current user in whos account the program was launching is a restricted user and can't even access msconfig

2) I don't like having the computer boot in anything other than "normal startup"

"We don't recommend disabling the upload center and do not provide a way to do so using the OCT." is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.  If it was so important a piece of software then everyone would have it, and it would be running on everyone's machine.

Programs that prevent users from quitting them, don't allow users to stop them from launching, or don't allow the user to uninstall them easily, should be illegal.

Anyway, hope this helps someone else get rid of this annoying program.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

I was able to prevent this application from launching by removing the entry in the registry which launches the software.  I found it in the user key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OfficeSyncProcess

I didn't like the idea of using msconfig for 2 reasons:

1) the current user in whos account the program was launching is a restricted user and can't even access msconfig

2) I don't like having the computer boot in anything other than "normal startup"

"We don't recommend disabling the upload center and do not provide a way to do so using the OCT." is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.  If it was so important a piece of software then everyone would have it, and it would be running on everyone's machine.

Programs that prevent users from quitting them, don't allow users to stop them from launching, or don't allow the user to uninstall them easily, should be illegal.

Anyway, hope this helps someone else get rid of this annoying program.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

I was able to prevent this application from launching by removing the entry in the registry which launches the software.  I found it in the user key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OfficeSyncProcess

I didn't like the idea of using msconfig for 2 reasons:

1) the current user in whos account the program was launching is a restricted user and can't even access msconfig

2) I don't like having the computer boot in anything other than "normal startup"

"We don't recommend disabling the upload center and do not provide a way to do so using the OCT." is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.  If it was so important a piece of software then everyone would have it, and it would be running on everyone's machine.

Programs that prevent users from quitting them, don't allow users to stop them from launching, or don't allow the user to uninstall them easily, should be illegal.

Anyway, hope this helps someone else get rid of this annoying program.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM

I was able to prevent this application from launching by removing the entry in the registry which launches the software.  I found it in the user key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OfficeSyncProcess

I didn't like the idea of using msconfig for 2 reasons:

1) the current user in whos account the program was launching is a restricted user and can't even access msconfig

2) I don't like having the computer boot in anything other than "normal startup"

"We don't recommend disabling the upload center and do not provide a way to do so using the OCT." is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.  If it was so important a piece of software then everyone would have it, and it would be running on everyone's machine.

Programs that prevent users from quitting them, don't allow users to stop them from launching, or don't allow the user to uninstall them easily, should be illegal.

Anyway, hope this helps someone else get rid of this annoying program.

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

• Proposed as answer by Dom_Christo Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:59 AM

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

• Proposed as answer by Dom_Christo Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:59 AM

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

• Proposed as answer by Dom_Christo Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:59 AM

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

My wife is a media specialist, and almost never uses our home lap top for school business except chech her school mail.

She bought MSO sudents and facatuly version so she could do a few things at home.

I am the main user, this is my gaming machine, I hate programs running in the back ground. For Microsoft to disable the user/purcheser ability to turn/off the applications is STUPID and kinda Phishy.<0)>)))>{ if you ask me...I don't like it at all...Might just get our money back from such Pious ........ that think you can keep an open road to my hard drive for some 15 yo hacker to userp...Thanks a lot Microminds...Your really thinking.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Thursday, March 08, 2012 3:22 PM
• Proposed as answer by y-ogura Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:33 AM

My wife is a media specialist, and almost never uses our home lap top for school business except chech her school mail.

She bought MSO sudents and facatuly version so she could do a few things at home.

I am the main user, this is my gaming machine, I hate programs running in the back ground. For Microsoft to disable the user/purcheser ability to turn/off the applications is STUPID and kinda Phishy.<0)>)))>{ if you ask me...I don't like it at all...Might just get our money back from such Pious ........ that think you can keep an open road to my hard drive for some 15 yo hacker to userp...Thanks a lot Microminds...Your really thinking.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Thursday, March 08, 2012 3:22 PM
• Proposed as answer by y-ogura Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:33 AM

My wife is a media specialist, and almost never uses our home lap top for school business except chech her school mail.

She bought MSO sudents and facatuly version so she could do a few things at home.

I am the main user, this is my gaming machine, I hate programs running in the back ground. For Microsoft to disable the user/purcheser ability to turn/off the applications is STUPID and kinda Phishy.<0)>)))>{ if you ask me...I don't like it at all...Might just get our money back from such Pious ........ that think you can keep an open road to my hard drive for some 15 yo hacker to userp...Thanks a lot Microminds...Your really thinking.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:53 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Thursday, March 08, 2012 3:22 PM
• Proposed as answer by y-ogura Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:33 AM

My wife is a media specialist, and almost never uses our home lap top for school business except chech her school mail.

She bought MSO sudents and facatuly version so she could do a few things at home.

I am the main user, this is my gaming machine, I hate programs running in the back ground. For Microsoft to disable the user/purcheser ability to turn/off the applications is STUPID and kinda Phishy.<0)>)))>{ if you ask me...I don't like it at all...Might just get our money back from such Pious ........ that think you can keep an open road to my hard drive for some 15 yo hacker to userp...Thanks a lot Microminds...Your really thinking.

I had this utility installed when I attempted to install a SharePoint product. I forget which one, sorry. I cancelled the installation but it left this Office Download Manager on the system and running. I knew I didn't need it and I removed it. The application may be used by other applications, so if your not sure leave it alone.

Open Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Delete the entry for MSOSYNC.

After that the application was gone. I assume the reason it is under current user may have been because I selected the option only for me and not for all users during the installation. If you install it for all users, the path for the key may be different. If you are not comfortable with editing the registry then don't. Otherwise I hope this helps.

• Proposed as answer by Michael J McNally Friday, October 14, 2011 5:25 PM

I had this utility installed when I attempted to install a SharePoint product. I forget which one, sorry. I cancelled the installation but it left this Office Download Manager on the system and running. I knew I didn't need it and I removed it. The application may be used by other applications, so if your not sure leave it alone.

Open Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Delete the entry for MSOSYNC.

After that the application was gone. I assume the reason it is under current user may have been because I selected the option only for me and not for all users during the installation. If you install it for all users, the path for the key may be different. If you are not comfortable with editing the registry then don't. Otherwise I hope this helps.

• Proposed as answer by Michael J McNally Friday, October 14, 2011 5:25 PM

I had this utility installed when I attempted to install a SharePoint product. I forget which one, sorry. I cancelled the installation but it left this Office Download Manager on the system and running. I knew I didn't need it and I removed it. The application may be used by other applications, so if your not sure leave it alone.

Open Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Delete the entry for MSOSYNC.

After that the application was gone. I assume the reason it is under current user may have been because I selected the option only for me and not for all users during the installation. If you install it for all users, the path for the key may be different. If you are not comfortable with editing the registry then don't. Otherwise I hope this helps.

• Proposed as answer by Michael J McNally Friday, October 14, 2011 5:25 PM

I had this utility installed when I attempted to install a SharePoint product. I forget which one, sorry. I cancelled the installation but it left this Office Download Manager on the system and running. I knew I didn't need it and I removed it. The application may be used by other applications, so if your not sure leave it alone.

Open Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Delete the entry for MSOSYNC.

After that the application was gone. I assume the reason it is under current user may have been because I selected the option only for me and not for all users during the installation. If you install it for all users, the path for the key may be different. If you are not comfortable with editing the registry then don't. Otherwise I hope this helps.

Use "Autoruns" (search for it on G**gl* it is a Microsoft program) -  find MSOsync - remove the entry - it will keep the program from loading till you need it again.

This is one of the reasons people will be using *p*ds because of insulting crap like this. 

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM

Use "Autoruns" (search for it on G**gl* it is a Microsoft program) -  find MSOsync - remove the entry - it will keep the program from loading till you need it again.

This is one of the reasons people will be using *p*ds because of insulting crap like this. 

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM

Use "Autoruns" (search for it on G**gl* it is a Microsoft program) -  find MSOsync - remove the entry - it will keep the program from loading till you need it again.

This is one of the reasons people will be using *p*ds because of insulting crap like this. 

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM

Use "Autoruns" (search for it on G**gl* it is a Microsoft program) -  find MSOsync - remove the entry - it will keep the program from loading till you need it again.

This is one of the reasons people will be using *p*ds because of insulting crap like this. 

Go to 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

(or whatever your program files folder is)

And delete MSOUC.exe and MSOSYNC.exe. I deleted only SYNC, and then ran UC to see what it was and it reinstalled SYNC and made me reboot my computer.

To hell with all this stupid garbage.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:51 PM

Go to 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

(or whatever your program files folder is)

And delete MSOUC.exe and MSOSYNC.exe. I deleted only SYNC, and then ran UC to see what it was and it reinstalled SYNC and made me reboot my computer.

To hell with all this stupid garbage.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:51 PM

Go to 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

(or whatever your program files folder is)

And delete MSOUC.exe and MSOSYNC.exe. I deleted only SYNC, and then ran UC to see what it was and it reinstalled SYNC and made me reboot my computer.

To hell with all this stupid garbage.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:51 PM

Go to 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

(or whatever your program files folder is)

And delete MSOUC.exe and MSOSYNC.exe. I deleted only SYNC, and then ran UC to see what it was and it reinstalled SYNC and made me reboot my computer.

To hell with all this stupid garbage.

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:54 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:51 PM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:54 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:51 PM

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:54 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:51 PM

Hello,

I'm NOT using Sharepoint or skydrive but another webdav software (VDoc).

It's seems that there're some incompatibilities between this software and Office 2010.
Once the session is disconnected, the upload center take in charge the file. But once we want to save the file (after reconnecting on the webdav folder) it's impossible to do it.

The faster way to solve this problem for me is this disable the upload center and it's impossible.
The Deleted registry entry is rebuilt once we save a file on the webdav folder.
The renamed exe is reconfigured once we launch an Office product.

Regards,
Damien

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Thursday, March 08, 2012 3:24 PM

Hello,

I'm NOT using Sharepoint or skydrive but another webdav software (VDoc).

It's seems that there're some incompatibilities between this software and Office 2010.
Once the session is disconnected, the upload center take in charge the file. But once we want to save the file (after reconnecting on the webdav folder) it's impossible to do it.

The faster way to solve this problem for me is this disable the upload center and it's impossible.
The Deleted registry entry is rebuilt once we save a file on the webdav folder.
The renamed exe is reconfigured once we launch an Office product.

Regards,
Damien

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Thursday, March 08, 2012 3:24 PM

Hello,

I'm NOT using Sharepoint or skydrive but another webdav software (VDoc).

It's seems that there're some incompatibilities between this software and Office 2010.
Once the session is disconnected, the upload center take in charge the file. But once we want to save the file (after reconnecting on the webdav folder) it's impossible to do it.

The faster way to solve this problem for me is this disable the upload center and it's impossible.
The Deleted registry entry is rebuilt once we save a file on the webdav folder.
The renamed exe is reconfigured once we launch an Office product.

Regards,
Damien

• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Thursday, March 08, 2012 3:24 PM

Hello,

I'm NOT using Sharepoint or skydrive but another webdav software (VDoc).

It's seems that there're some incompatibilities between this software and Office 2010.
Once the session is disconnected, the upload center take in charge the file. But once we want to save the file (after reconnecting on the webdav folder) it's impossible to do it.

The faster way to solve this problem for me is this disable the upload center and it's impossible.
The Deleted registry entry is rebuilt once we save a file on the webdav folder.
The renamed exe is reconfigured once we launch an Office product.

Regards,
Damien

The post by agressiv2 worked for me, Cheers.

To find your GUID: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2186281

Replace the 2nd set of numbers.

e.g. Office Home and Business 2010 is {90140000-0013-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}

• Edited by Dom_Christo Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:05 AM
• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:54 AM

The post by agressiv2 worked for me, Cheers.

To find your GUID: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2186281

Replace the 2nd set of numbers.

e.g. Office Home and Business 2010 is {90140000-0013-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}

• Edited by Dom_Christo Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:05 AM
• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:54 AM

The post by agressiv2 worked for me, Cheers.

To find your GUID: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2186281

Replace the 2nd set of numbers.

e.g. Office Home and Business 2010 is {90140000-0013-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}

• Edited by Dom_Christo Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:05 AM
• Proposed as answer by Intentionally Left Blank Too Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:54 AM

The post by agressiv2 worked for me, Cheers.

To find your GUID: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2186281

Replace the 2nd set of numbers.

e.g. Office Home and Business 2010 is {90140000-0013-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}

In case it makes any difference I can report that performing uploads such as those promoted and supported by this tool is against company policy where I work and is actually grounds for dismissal. Clearly being able to disable/remove this feature is attractive.

Guys, thanks for raising this matter and finding solutions.  Agressive2's answer worked for me on Office 64. 

However I cannot easily swalow the lack of customer respect on display from Microsof rep on 6th August 2010.  It is also really interesting how quiet they went after that.

Cheers to customer unity!

Sevciu

I currently have no use to upload files to a sharepoint server or via upload center in my corporate network environment. Upon trying to start sharepoint for the first time after my installation of office 2010, I noticed an upload center task tray icon. I searched and searched for a way to disable it or remove it from running, but the only way I found was to disable MSOSYNC.EXE in msconfig in the start-up tab. I then then also went to the executable associated with the upload center (MSOSYNC.EXE) and relocate that file. I chose not to delete it in case that I needed to restore it at a later time. 

From what I've noticed I have removed the process from starting and using system resources I don't need it to be utilizing. Hope this helps.

Jon

• Edited by jpf22 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:56 PM paste didn't work

I currently have no use to upload files to a sharepoint server or via upload center in my corporate network environment. Upon trying to start sharepoint for the first time after my installation of office 2010, I noticed an upload center task tray icon. I searched and searched for a way to disable it or remove it from running, but the only way I found was to disable MSOSYNC.EXE in msconfig in the start-up tab. I then then also went to the executable associated with the upload center (MSOSYNC.EXE) and relocate that file. I chose not to delete it in case that I needed to restore it at a later time. 

From what I've noticed I have removed the process from starting and using system resources I don't need it to be utilizing. Hope this helps.

Jon

• Edited by jpf22 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:56 PM paste didn't work

I currently have no use to upload files to a sharepoint server or via upload center in my corporate network environment. Upon trying to start sharepoint for the first time after my installation of office 2010, I noticed an upload center task tray icon. I searched and searched for a way to disable it or remove it from running, but the only way I found was to disable MSOSYNC.EXE in msconfig in the start-up tab. I then then also went to the executable associated with the upload center (MSOSYNC.EXE) and relocate that file. I chose not to delete it in case that I needed to restore it at a later time. 

From what I've noticed I have removed the process from starting and using system resources I don't need it to be utilizing. Hope this helps.

Jon

• Edited by jpf22 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:56 PM paste didn't work

I currently have no use to upload files to a sharepoint server or via upload center in my corporate network environment. Upon trying to start sharepoint for the first time after my installation of office 2010, I noticed an upload center task tray icon. I searched and searched for a way to disable it or remove it from running, but the only way I found was to disable MSOSYNC.EXE in msconfig in the start-up tab. I then then also went to the executable associated with the upload center (MSOSYNC.EXE) and relocate that file. I chose not to delete it in case that I needed to restore it at a later time. 

From what I've noticed I have removed the process from starting and using system resources I don't need it to be utilizing. Hope this helps.

Jon

Sean Fr

I agree with many people who said that there should be a way to uninstall it, not just disable it. I've used Skydrive once but I didn't intend to keep it indefinitely. I really believe there should be a way to remove it, say from Programs and Features. Disabling it is different to being able to unsintall it. Using msconfig or autoruns is not something the majority of shouldn't be expected to do.

Regards

Juanal

• Edited by Juanal Monday, June 11, 2012 2:22 PM

Sean Fr

I agree with many people who said that there should be a way to uninstall it, not just disable it. I've used Skydrive once but I didn't intend to keep it indefinitely. I really believe there should be a way to remove it, say from Programs and Features. Disabling it is different to being able to unsintall it. Using msconfig or autoruns is not something the majority of shouldn't be expected to do.

Regards

Juanal

• Edited by Juanal Monday, June 11, 2012 2:22 PM

Sean Fr

I agree with many people who said that there should be a way to uninstall it, not just disable it. I've used Skydrive once but I didn't intend to keep it indefinitely. I really believe there should be a way to remove it, say from Programs and Features. Disabling it is different to being able to unsintall it. Using msconfig or autoruns is not something the majority of shouldn't be expected to do.

Regards

Juanal

• Edited by Juanal Monday, June 11, 2012 2:22 PM

Sean Fr

I agree with many people who said that there should be a way to uninstall it, not just disable it. I've used Skydrive once but I didn't intend to keep it indefinitely. I really believe there should be a way to remove it, say from Programs and Features. Disabling it is different to being able to unsintall it. Using msconfig or autoruns is not something the majority of shouldn't be expected to do.

Regards

Juanal

• Proposed as answer by hmmmm..... _ Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:24 PM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:52 PM

• Proposed as answer by hmmmm..... _ Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:24 PM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:52 PM

• Proposed as answer by hmmmm..... _ Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:24 PM
• Unproposed as answer by David Wolters Friday, June 22, 2012 1:52 PM

I can't believe this thread will be two years old in two days, almost a mile long and none of you has come up with an answer. I have this issue on a 2008R2 RDS server since a week now. I've gone through this entire thread and countless others. None of the offerings here have helped a stitch for me, so here's my offering to the thread and forum:

I work in a global player company, located in a subsidiary in Germany, run an RDS farm virtualized on Hyper-V for 70 odd users. Indeed there seems to be no way of deactivating upload center permanently, but the MS-wannabe-cracks are lying when they say you can't deopt the upload center via OCT. I fired up my virtualized lab environment, took a snapshot of one of our RDSs where the upload center is already running. After days of trying all offerings I could find, I went about my own path and the simplest answer: Do a clean uninstall of everything office related (Office, Language packs, Service pack,..) and then reinstall with a well refined /adminfile. If you look well enough you'll find what to deactivate in the MSP (I deact'd everything that's got 'web host' and 'sharepoint' in the naming of the policy. The only thing you loose is the document history (recently opened files). Personal settings within e.g. MS Word, like personally added icons to the quick bar, or changes in the ribbon, survive the un- and reinstallation. This is how I got rid of the upload center.

btw: MS: In Germany we have a saying 'Schuss ins Knie' -> shoot oneself in the knee -> you're dumb as a piece of white bread to injure yourself doing that.  And with 'doing that' I mean implementing something that no company with a halfway grown up IT-dept. needs or wants, and forcing it onto them. Grow up kids!

Juan C. Santana

• Proposed as answer by Juan C. Santana Friday, August 03, 2012 8:11 AM

I can't believe this thread will be two years old in two days, almost a mile long and none of you has come up with an answer. I have this issue on a 2008R2 RDS server since a week now. I've gone through this entire thread and countless others. None of the offerings here have helped a stitch for me, so here's my offering to the thread and forum:

I work in a global player company, located in a subsidiary in Germany, run an RDS farm virtualized on Hyper-V for 70 odd users. Indeed there seems to be no way of deactivating upload center permanently, but the MS-wannabe-cracks are lying when they say you can't deopt the upload center via OCT. I fired up my virtualized lab environment, took a snapshot of one of our RDSs where the upload center is already running. After days of trying all offerings I could find, I went about my own path and the simplest answer: Do a clean uninstall of everything office related (Office, Language packs, Service pack,..) and then reinstall with a well refined /adminfile. If you look well enough you'll find what to deactivate in the MSP (I deact'd everything that's got 'web host' and 'sharepoint' in the naming of the policy. The only thing you loose is the document history (recently opened files). Personal settings within e.g. MS Word, like personally added icons to the quick bar, or changes in the ribbon, survive the un- and reinstallation. This is how I got rid of the upload center.

btw: MS: In Germany we have a saying 'Schuss ins Knie' -> shoot oneself in the knee -> you're dumb as a piece of white bread to injure yourself doing that.  And with 'doing that' I mean implementing something that no company with a halfway grown up IT-dept. needs or wants, and forcing it onto them. Grow up kids!

Juan C. Santana

• Proposed as answer by Juan C. Santana Friday, August 03, 2012 8:11 AM

I can't believe this thread will be two years old in two days, almost a mile long and none of you has come up with an answer. I have this issue on a 2008R2 RDS server since a week now. I've gone through this entire thread and countless others. None of the offerings here have helped a stitch for me, so here's my offering to the thread and forum:

I work in a global player company, located in a subsidiary in Germany, run an RDS farm virtualized on Hyper-V for 70 odd users. Indeed there seems to be no way of deactivating upload center permanently, but the MS-wannabe-cracks are lying when they say you can't deopt the upload center via OCT. I fired up my virtualized lab environment, took a snapshot of one of our RDSs where the upload center is already running. After days of trying all offerings I could find, I went about my own path and the simplest answer: Do a clean uninstall of everything office related (Office, Language packs, Service pack,..) and then reinstall with a well refined /adminfile. If you look well enough you'll find what to deactivate in the MSP (I deact'd everything that's got 'web host' and 'sharepoint' in the naming of the policy. The only thing you loose is the document history (recently opened files). Personal settings within e.g. MS Word, like personally added icons to the quick bar, or changes in the ribbon, survive the un- and reinstallation. This is how I got rid of the upload center.

btw: MS: In Germany we have a saying 'Schuss ins Knie' -> shoot oneself in the knee -> you're dumb as a piece of white bread to injure yourself doing that.  And with 'doing that' I mean implementing something that no company with a halfway grown up IT-dept. needs or wants, and forcing it onto them. Grow up kids!

Juan C. Santana

• Proposed as answer by Juan C. Santana Friday, August 03, 2012 8:11 AM

I can't believe this thread will be two years old in two days, almost a mile long and none of you has come up with an answer. I have this issue on a 2008R2 RDS server since a week now. I've gone through this entire thread and countless others. None of the offerings here have helped a stitch for me, so here's my offering to the thread and forum:

I work in a global player company, located in a subsidiary in Germany, run an RDS farm virtualized on Hyper-V for 70 odd users. Indeed there seems to be no way of deactivating upload center permanently, but the MS-wannabe-cracks are lying when they say you can't deopt the upload center via OCT. I fired up my virtualized lab environment, took a snapshot of one of our RDSs where the upload center is already running. After days of trying all offerings I could find, I went about my own path and the simplest answer: Do a clean uninstall of everything office related (Office, Language packs, Service pack,..) and then reinstall with a well refined /adminfile. If you look well enough you'll find what to deactivate in the MSP (I deact'd everything that's got 'web host' and 'sharepoint' in the naming of the policy. The only thing you loose is the document history (recently opened files). Personal settings within e.g. MS Word, like personally added icons to the quick bar, or changes in the ribbon, survive the un- and reinstallation. This is how I got rid of the upload center.

btw: MS: In Germany we have a saying 'Schuss ins Knie' -> shoot oneself in the knee -> you're dumb as a piece of white bread to injure yourself doing that.  And with 'doing that' I mean implementing something that no company with a halfway grown up IT-dept. needs or wants, and forcing it onto them. Grow up kids!

Juan C. Santana

Well said!

this had just appeared on my machine - not certain how or why - i was doing some testing with sharepoint so maybe ....but it is crazy thta i cannot get rid of it.    in these days where we all want to be more security aware getting rid of all unnecessay crap is a good first line of defence!

I see that I am not the only person trying to get rid of the "Upload Center". It was forced upon a customer's computer when she installed Office 2010, and now we can't get rid of it. There's been TWO YEARS of people complaining about this, and Microsoft doesn't give a damn.

Yes, it can be disabled, but that is not a solution. The solution is how to REMOVE it.

Well, I can give anyone interested the final solution that I found:

1- Completely uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 from your computer.

2- Download an install Open Office or Libre Office.

...Ok, this is not a real solution. However, if more people did that (and I really did!), we could show Microsoft that we are not their sheep and that we will not swallow meekly all the crap they try to force down our throats.

In the meantime, I will be using the dirty solutions posted here (deleting the exec files and registry entries).

But, from now on, every customer I get asking for MS Office, I will direct to Libre Office instead. And they can save a lot of money too.

Using marclevesque's location of the startup registry key, I created a Registry entry in the new Group Policy Preferences area to delete that entry for all of my RDS/Terminal Server users and it has solved my problem.  It's not a perfect solution, but it will persistently prevent the Upload Center from starting within the next logoff/logon instance.

Group Policy -> User Configuration -> Preferences -> Windows Settings -> Registry

New -> Registry Item

Action: Delete
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key Path: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Value Name: OfficeSyncProcess

Hope this helps any future readers.

Here you go:

Disable Office Upload Center
1. Open task manager and kill MSOSYNC.EXE and OSPPSVC.EXE
2.  Search C: for MSOSYNC.EXE and note which one is the actual Office folder, then delete them all
3. Go to the Office folder and create a MSOSYNC.txt file and edit it to put the quit command in it.
4.  Rename the file to MSOSYNC.EXE and then change the permissions so the user owns it, and remove all permissions except for the user which should have all except WRITE.
5.  Reboot

• Proposed as answer by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:51 PM

Here you go:

Disable Office Upload Center
1. Open task manager and kill MSOSYNC.EXE and OSPPSVC.EXE
2.  Search C: for MSOSYNC.EXE and note which one is the actual Office folder, then delete them all
3. Go to the Office folder and create a MSOSYNC.txt file and edit it to put the quit command in it.
4.  Rename the file to MSOSYNC.EXE and then change the permissions so the user owns it, and remove all permissions except for the user which should have all except WRITE.
5.  Reboot

• Proposed as answer by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:51 PM

Here you go:

Disable Office Upload Center
1. Open task manager and kill MSOSYNC.EXE and OSPPSVC.EXE
2.  Search C: for MSOSYNC.EXE and note which one is the actual Office folder, then delete them all
3. Go to the Office folder and create a MSOSYNC.txt file and edit it to put the quit command in it.
4.  Rename the file to MSOSYNC.EXE and then change the permissions so the user owns it, and remove all permissions except for the user which should have all except WRITE.
5.  Reboot

• Proposed as answer by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:51 PM

Here you go:

Disable Office Upload Center
1. Open task manager and kill MSOSYNC.EXE and OSPPSVC.EXE
2.  Search C: for MSOSYNC.EXE and note which one is the actual Office folder, then delete them all
3. Go to the Office folder and create a MSOSYNC.txt file and edit it to put the quit command in it.
4.  Rename the file to MSOSYNC.EXE and then change the permissions so the user owns it, and remove all permissions except for the user which should have all except WRITE.
5.  Reboot

Every day, between 5 and 7 pm, this application runs my CPU at 100%, then totally freezes my system, forcing me to reboot. Lately, it seems only a cold reboot works. My company uses a sharepoint site. I'd really like to be able to quit this app. It's disabling my system.

Were you able to fix this issue? I am in similar situation and not able to get my non sharepoint software to check out excel file in office 2010, and then check in after making changes. It launches upload center and fails. 

I have tried the registry hacks, file renames etc. But no avail. 

Thanks

YEEEESS !! this works for mee

I rename MSOSYNC.EXE to something else #MSOSYNC.EX#

then create MSOSYNC.TXT - edit in notepad: type quit (or may be empty file ?)

save and rename TXT to EXE

.. and DONE & GONE :-)

YEEEESS !! this works for mee

I rename MSOSYNC.EXE to something else #MSOSYNC.EX#

then create MSOSYNC.TXT - edit in notepad: type quit (or may be empty file ?)

save and rename TXT to EXE

.. and DONE & GONE :-)

• Proposed as answer by jgallott Friday, August 09, 2013 2:02 PM

YEEEESS !! this works for mee

I rename MSOSYNC.EXE to something else #MSOSYNC.EX#

then create MSOSYNC.TXT - edit in notepad: type quit (or may be empty file ?)

save and rename TXT to EXE

.. and DONE & GONE :-)

• Proposed as answer by jgallott Friday, August 09, 2013 2:02 PM

YEEEESS !! this works for mee

I rename MSOSYNC.EXE to something else #MSOSYNC.EX#

then create MSOSYNC.TXT - edit in notepad: type quit (or may be empty file ?)

save and rename TXT to EXE

.. and DONE & GONE :-)

• Proposed as answer by jgallott Friday, August 09, 2013 2:02 PM

For office 2013 plus, MSOSync.exe installs itself into the scheduled tasks in windows, and not the startup folder for the current or default user.

I used Autoruns from Microsoft Sysinternals (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902) to remove this entry and additional used a 3rd party product: Security Taskmanager, to terminate and quarantine the process.

Renaming the MSOSYNC.EXE, and creating the fake one (text file with one word: quit and renamed as the .exe)  as suggested by BurntOC and CyNETT works great for a single computer.

For our domain, I created a GPO that applies to everyone; User Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, 'Don't run specified Windows applications', and added MSOSYNC.EXE to 'List of disallowed applications'.

Don't you know that MS has turned into Apple.

You don't to do what you want.  You get to do what MS tell you.

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

• Proposed as answer by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:48 PM

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

• Proposed as answer by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:48 PM

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

• Proposed as answer by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:48 PM

I finally disabled Upload center loading at Startup by these steps (Win 7 Ultimate, Office Pro 2010):

1) Start Menu>Control Panel>Programs and Features

2) select MS Office Pro Plus 2010 (in my case) - do not double-click

3) At the top of the screen select "CHANGE"

4) Select Add or Remove Features

5) Expand Outlook by clicking the + sign

6) Expand Outlook Add-Ins by clicking the plus sign

7) Select SharePoint Server Colleague Recommendations Add-In

8) Select the red X, for Not available, continue, finish and restart the computer.  This got rid of it for me.

Cheers!

• Proposed as answer by FIZBAN11 Monday, September 16, 2013 4:22 PM

I finally disabled Upload center loading at Startup by these steps (Win 7 Ultimate, Office Pro 2010):

1) Start Menu>Control Panel>Programs and Features

2) select MS Office Pro Plus 2010 (in my case) - do not double-click

3) At the top of the screen select "CHANGE"

4) Select Add or Remove Features

5) Expand Outlook by clicking the + sign

6) Expand Outlook Add-Ins by clicking the plus sign

7) Select SharePoint Server Colleague Recommendations Add-In

8) Select the red X, for Not available, continue, finish and restart the computer.  This got rid of it for me.

Cheers!

• Proposed as answer by FIZBAN11 Monday, September 16, 2013 4:22 PM

I finally disabled Upload center loading at Startup by these steps (Win 7 Ultimate, Office Pro 2010):

1) Start Menu>Control Panel>Programs and Features

2) select MS Office Pro Plus 2010 (in my case) - do not double-click

3) At the top of the screen select "CHANGE"

4) Select Add or Remove Features

5) Expand Outlook by clicking the + sign

6) Expand Outlook Add-Ins by clicking the plus sign

7) Select SharePoint Server Colleague Recommendations Add-In

8) Select the red X, for Not available, continue, finish and restart the computer.  This got rid of it for me.

Cheers!

• Proposed as answer by FIZBAN11 Monday, September 16, 2013 4:22 PM

To disable via group policy:

User configuration --> Policies --> administrative templates --> System --> Don't run specified Windows Applications --> add msosync.exe to list of disallowed applications. 

Thank you. I knew it was a program that had to be doing it. It figures it would be SharePoint. What I did, however, was made Outlook "Not Available". I figure why go into MSCONFIG or registry when I can get rid or stop the main program itself.

Peace & Long Life

Allons-y!

• Edited by Ceej13 Friday, October 11, 2013 12:32 AM

Thank you. I knew it was a program that had to be doing it. It figures it would be SharePoint. What I did, however, was made Outlook "Not Available". I figure why go into MSCONFIG or registry when I can get rid or stop the main program itself.

Peace & Long Life

Allons-y!

• Edited by Ceej13 Friday, October 11, 2013 12:32 AM

Thank you. I knew it was a program that had to be doing it. It figures it would be SharePoint. What I did, however, was made Outlook "Not Available". I figure why go into MSCONFIG or registry when I can get rid or stop the main program itself.

Peace & Long Life

Allons-y!

• Edited by Ceej13 Friday, October 11, 2013 12:32 AM

against what company policy? microsoft? are u as many microsoft workers really that brainwashed to kiss and lick your boss's ass almost lemon pledge clean? REALLY!!!, a frking huge company that can bend over to kiss his own ass because of its high status and BILLION dollar company. u really feel that urging need to contribute to that.

if so... i'll hope your closedmindedness once opens up to the rest of the world and that there isn't JUST microsoft. if not... then i'm confused by what you post here.

anyway,

that feature IS indeed attractive and i hope not you and anyone else of microsoft will find a way to block this.

otherwise, i'l find a way to surpass any of microsoft's 'listening-devices'.

(ps: don't anyone dare to put his dirty finger on my bad grammar cuz i'm originally dutch speaking,

meaning that this message typing is already a handfull, let alone correct any errors.)

still regards, mr anonymous(wich you could still find out sadly).

• Edited by ferris_saves Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:06 AM

• Edited by ferris_saves Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:06 AM

• Edited by ferris_saves Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:06 AM

We don't need these viruses :

- SkyDrive : by default with Windows 8 and 8.1

- Upload Center : by default with Office 2013 (and I hadn't installed Sharepoint !!!)

Sean FR : your second answer is the first part-of-a-approximatively-meanly-good-answer I have ever read from Microsoft for years ! Congratulations.

 Please, Microsoft, stop laughing at us, it's really irritating.

• Edited by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:45 PM

We don't need these viruses :

- SkyDrive : by default with Windows 8 and 8.1

- Upload Center : by default with Office 2013 (and I hadn't installed Sharepoint !!!)

Sean FR : your second answer is the first part-of-a-approximatively-meanly-good-answer I have ever read from Microsoft for years ! Congratulations.

 Please, Microsoft, stop laughing at us, it's really irritating.

• Edited by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:45 PM

We don't need these viruses :

- SkyDrive : by default with Windows 8 and 8.1

- Upload Center : by default with Office 2013 (and I hadn't installed Sharepoint !!!)

Sean FR : your second answer is the first part-of-a-approximatively-meanly-good-answer I have ever read from Microsoft for years ! Congratulations.

 Please, Microsoft, stop laughing at us, it's really irritating.

• Edited by Plaît-il Monday, February 10, 2014 5:45 PM

Using a .TXT file as suggested above by BurntOC worked for me as well.

Not real happy about removing Malware from my chosen Operating System...

• Edited by MarkVJ Monday, February 10, 2014 8:30 PM

Using a .TXT file as suggested above by BurntOC worked for me as well.

Not real happy about removing Malware from my chosen Operating System...

• Edited by MarkVJ Monday, February 10, 2014 8:30 PM

Using a .TXT file as suggested above by BurntOC worked for me as well.

Not real happy about removing Malware from my chosen Operating System...

• Edited by MarkVJ Monday, February 10, 2014 8:30 PM

Hi Mykel

Yes, there is a way to do that. I've tested it with Office 2013.

As agressiv2 already has posted the best solution i've seen til now, try this solution in OCT:

In OCT under "Setup\Add installations and run programs", add following entry:

• Target: [WindowsFolder]\System32\msiexec.exe
• Arguments: /i {GUID of your Office} REMOVE=WxpFiles
• In my case, i use Office 2013 Pro plus with this Argument: "/i {90150000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles"
• Select "run this program after installation of Office-product"

This will remove "Microsoft Office Workspaces" feature inside Office MSI right after Office is installed.

Many thanx to agressiv2.

Ajdin

• Edited by AjdinA Saturday, February 15, 2014 5:06 PM

Hi Mykel

Yes, there is a way to do that. I've tested it with Office 2013.

As agressiv2 already has posted the best solution i've seen til now, try this solution in OCT:

In OCT under "Setup\Add installations and run programs", add following entry:

• Target: [WindowsFolder]\System32\msiexec.exe
• Arguments: /i {GUID of your Office} REMOVE=WxpFiles
• In my case, i use Office 2013 Pro plus with this Argument: "/i {90150000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles"
• Select "run this program after installation of Office-product"

This will remove "Microsoft Office Workspaces" feature inside Office MSI right after Office is installed.

Many thanx to agressiv2.

Ajdin

• Edited by AjdinA Saturday, February 15, 2014 5:06 PM

Hi Mykel

Yes, there is a way to do that. I've tested it with Office 2013.

As agressiv2 already has posted the best solution i've seen til now, try this solution in OCT:

In OCT under "Setup\Add installations and run programs", add following entry:

• Target: [WindowsFolder]\System32\msiexec.exe
• Arguments: /i {GUID of your Office} REMOVE=WxpFiles
• In my case, i use Office 2013 Pro plus with this Argument: "/i {90150000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles"
• Select "run this program after installation of Office-product"

This will remove "Microsoft Office Workspaces" feature inside Office MSI right after Office is installed.

Many thanx to agressiv2.

Ajdin

• Edited by AjdinA Saturday, February 15, 2014 5:06 PM

This works in Office 2013 my guess is 2010 is similar...

I agree with all the complaints about microsoft 'forcing' users to use the upload center. Heavy Handed!!

I found this solution from a google search and it seems to work...

If you open task manager and stop the process MSOSYNC.EXE (right click and open its location first) that will kill the process. Then perform the following:

1. In the folder of MSOSYNC.EXE, delete the file.
2. Open notepad, and save a text file to that same location.
3. Rename the test file from New Text Document.txt to MSOSYNC.EXE

Many thanks to "Admin" at gearbytes for the solution. (I had to open notepad with administrator rights)

http://www.gearbytes.com/2013/10/how-to-disable-the-office-2013-upload-center/

Honestly though, Microsoft are getting more like Appl3 with removing choice from their software, I guess at least their OS is open enough for people like "Admin" to work out hacks...

Hope this helps someone else

Uninstalling the feature is the best way to remove it. But I have had difficulty removing it using the "msiexec" option show here and through the add/remove option. CCleaner is great for removing the MSOSYNC.EXE upload center executable from starting on boot but something always adds it back, for example installing a service pack.

I finally got sick of all this and created a batch script that uses existing MS utilities disable the ability for the file to run. The script would need to be run with elevated privileges (administrator). The script just disables access to the file with the idea that if you remove permissions to execute the file for any account on the system then it will never run, regardless of any registry key or background scheduled task MS creates.

For those not familiar with MS shell scripting, "rem" and "::" are comments, "taskkill" kills tasks, "takeown" takes ownership (forces), "cacls" changes NTFS permissions. All of these are well documented but use at own risk. My script will work on both x86 and x64 installations and will attempt to work with all future versions of Office (i.e. office14 vs office15). If they change the name of the executable it will not work.

Just copy the following into a text file and rename to .bat or .cmd extension to run it. I've used it multiple times and it works great for me. What a SILLY problem to have.

:: beginning of script

@echo off

taskkill /f /im msosync.exe 2>NUL

echo Y>\_yes

cd "\Program Files"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`dir /s /b msosync.exe 2^>NUL`) do (
 if exist "%%~i" (
  echo disabling %%~i
  takeown /f "%%~i" /a > NUL 2>&1
  cacls "%%~i" /c /t /p everyone:n < \_yes > NUL 2>&1
 )
)

cd "\Program Files (x86)"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`dir /s /b msosync.exe 2^>NUL`) do (
 if exist "%%~i" (
  echo disabling %%~i
  takeown /f "%%~i" /a > NUL 2>&1
  cacls "%%~i" /c /t /p everyone:n < \_yes > NUL 2>&1
 )
)

del /f /q \_yes
pause

rem to enable...
rem cacls "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\MSOSYNC.EXE" /c /t /p everyone:g 

:: end of script

Good luck!

• Edited by Dale Developer Friday, April 18, 2014 9:32 PM

Uninstalling the feature is the best way to remove it. But I have had difficulty removing it using the "msiexec" option show here and through the add/remove option. CCleaner is great for removing the MSOSYNC.EXE upload center executable from starting on boot but something always adds it back, for example installing a service pack.

I finally got sick of all this and created a batch script that uses existing MS utilities disable the ability for the file to run. The script would need to be run with elevated privileges (administrator). The script just disables access to the file with the idea that if you remove permissions to execute the file for any account on the system then it will never run, regardless of any registry key or background scheduled task MS creates.

For those not familiar with MS shell scripting, "rem" and "::" are comments, "taskkill" kills tasks, "takeown" takes ownership (forces), "cacls" changes NTFS permissions. All of these are well documented but use at own risk. My script will work on both x86 and x64 installations and will attempt to work with all future versions of Office (i.e. office14 vs office15). If they change the name of the executable it will not work.

Just copy the following into a text file and rename to .bat or .cmd extension to run it. I've used it multiple times and it works great for me. What a SILLY problem to have.

:: beginning of script

@echo off

taskkill /f /im msosync.exe 2>NUL

echo Y>\_yes

cd "\Program Files"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`dir /s /b msosync.exe 2^>NUL`) do (
 if exist "%%~i" (
  echo disabling %%~i
  takeown /f "%%~i" /a > NUL 2>&1
  cacls "%%~i" /c /t /p everyone:n < \_yes > NUL 2>&1
 )
)

cd "\Program Files (x86)"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`dir /s /b msosync.exe 2^>NUL`) do (
 if exist "%%~i" (
  echo disabling %%~i
  takeown /f "%%~i" /a > NUL 2>&1
  cacls "%%~i" /c /t /p everyone:n < \_yes > NUL 2>&1
 )
)

del /f /q \_yes
pause

rem to enable...
rem cacls "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\MSOSYNC.EXE" /c /t /p everyone:g 

:: end of script

Good luck!

• Edited by Dale Developer Friday, April 18, 2014 9:32 PM

Uninstalling the feature is the best way to remove it. But I have had difficulty removing it using the "msiexec" option show here and through the add/remove option. CCleaner is great for removing the MSOSYNC.EXE upload center executable from starting on boot but something always adds it back, for example installing a service pack.

I finally got sick of all this and created a batch script that uses existing MS utilities disable the ability for the file to run. The script would need to be run with elevated privileges (administrator). The script just disables access to the file with the idea that if you remove permissions to execute the file for any account on the system then it will never run, regardless of any registry key or background scheduled task MS creates.

For those not familiar with MS shell scripting, "rem" and "::" are comments, "taskkill" kills tasks, "takeown" takes ownership (forces), "cacls" changes NTFS permissions. All of these are well documented but use at own risk. My script will work on both x86 and x64 installations and will attempt to work with all future versions of Office (i.e. office14 vs office15). If they change the name of the executable it will not work.

Just copy the following into a text file and rename to .bat or .cmd extension to run it. I've used it multiple times and it works great for me. What a SILLY problem to have.

:: beginning of script

@echo off

taskkill /f /im msosync.exe 2>NUL

echo Y>\_yes

cd "\Program Files"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`dir /s /b msosync.exe 2^>NUL`) do (
 if exist "%%~i" (
  echo disabling %%~i
  takeown /f "%%~i" /a > NUL 2>&1
  cacls "%%~i" /c /t /p everyone:n < \_yes > NUL 2>&1
 )
)

cd "\Program Files (x86)"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`dir /s /b msosync.exe 2^>NUL`) do (
 if exist "%%~i" (
  echo disabling %%~i
  takeown /f "%%~i" /a > NUL 2>&1
  cacls "%%~i" /c /t /p everyone:n < \_yes > NUL 2>&1
 )
)

del /f /q \_yes
pause

rem to enable...
rem cacls "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\MSOSYNC.EXE" /c /t /p everyone:g 

:: end of script

Good luck!

• Edited by Dale Developer Friday, April 18, 2014 9:32 PM

Solved

After trying everything I could find to stop Word 2013 (Home-Office click to run)from 'uploading to OneDrive' within Word, and crashing; having word think it was saving to a (local) network folder solved all problems for the single user that had no use for sharepoint. Note: the OneDrive folder must be behind the users folder (a Microsoft default).

Solution: in the options for word, change the default local save path (and SAVE to this UNC path)  i.e. '\\WorkPC\users\scott\onedrive\documents'  ('\\WorkPC\users' ... - network path was the default sytem created UNC path for this machine and user (discovery is turned on) (NOTE: use your computer name for "workpc" and the correct user name and path to the documents folder for the profile wanting to save directly to the local onedrive folder....

Office Upload Center does not allow syncing a network UNC path (local network location), so it does nothing (finally kinda disabled), and OneDrive in Windows 8.1 sees the change on the local machine and syncs.

upon further testing, everything worked, save of new and edited doc or docx, and opening a doc from metro, even saved smoothly through the 'uploadng to onedrive" within word, opening a doc from a UNC saved back to the local onedrive-docs folder and synced thru OneDrive, all tests but one "save as" worked and i could not duplicate the error a second time

• Edited by Monkey57 Friday, May 09, 2014 2:55 AM

Solved

After trying everything I could find to stop Word 2013 (Home-Office click to run)from 'uploading to OneDrive' within Word, and crashing; having word think it was saving to a (local) network folder solved all problems for the single user that had no use for sharepoint. Note: the OneDrive folder must be behind the users folder (a Microsoft default).

Solution: in the options for word, change the default local save path (and SAVE to this UNC path)  i.e. '\\WorkPC\users\scott\onedrive\documents'  ('\\WorkPC\users' ... - network path was the default sytem created UNC path for this machine and user (discovery is turned on) (NOTE: use your computer name for "workpc" and the correct user name and path to the documents folder for the profile wanting to save directly to the local onedrive folder....

Office Upload Center does not allow syncing a network UNC path (local network location), so it does nothing (finally kinda disabled), and OneDrive in Windows 8.1 sees the change on the local machine and syncs.

upon further testing, everything worked, save of new and edited doc or docx, and opening a doc from metro, even saved smoothly through the 'uploadng to onedrive" within word, opening a doc from a UNC saved back to the local onedrive-docs folder and synced thru OneDrive, all tests but one "save as" worked and i could not duplicate the error a second time

• Edited by Monkey57 Friday, May 09, 2014 2:55 AM

Solved

After trying everything I could find to stop Word 2013 (Home-Office click to run)from 'uploading to OneDrive' within Word, and crashing; having word think it was saving to a (local) network folder solved all problems for the single user that had no use for sharepoint. Note: the OneDrive folder must be behind the users folder (a Microsoft default).

Solution: in the options for word, change the default local save path (and SAVE to this UNC path)  i.e. '\\WorkPC\users\scott\onedrive\documents'  ('\\WorkPC\users' ... - network path was the default sytem created UNC path for this machine and user (discovery is turned on) (NOTE: use your computer name for "workpc" and the correct user name and path to the documents folder for the profile wanting to save directly to the local onedrive folder....

Office Upload Center does not allow syncing a network UNC path (local network location), so it does nothing (finally kinda disabled), and OneDrive in Windows 8.1 sees the change on the local machine and syncs.

upon further testing, everything worked, save of new and edited doc or docx, and opening a doc from metro, even saved smoothly through the 'uploadng to onedrive" within word, opening a doc from a UNC saved back to the local onedrive-docs folder and synced thru OneDrive, all tests but one "save as" worked and i could not duplicate the error a second time

• Edited by Monkey57 Friday, May 09, 2014 2:55 AM

And....Here we are 4 years later. Same issue, same arrogant dumbass response from a microcrap employee to the sheeple.

Have any of you read their new TOU for ANY of their products? They have complete access to everything you create with their software, as well as all usage history uploaded at the end of every day. They promise not to market you with all of this information they claim ownership of - yet they have it.

Data mining asswipes just like everyone else.

Baaahaaah, Baaaahaaahaaha my fellow sheeple!

• Proposed as answer by Joris Linssen Monday, September 08, 2014 9:39 PM

• Proposed as answer by Joris Linssen Monday, September 08, 2014 9:39 PM

• Proposed as answer by Joris Linssen Monday, September 08, 2014 9:39 PM

worked a charm!

admirable detective work, as well ( ;

. . .  sidenote ---- I wonder if this is all a holdover from Ray Ozzie's 'instrumental' GROOVE initiative ?!?

There is a much easier way to get rid of it permanently.  Pretty sure this is unsupported (as said by Microsoft above) but it worked for me.  MSOSYNC.EXE is now gone from my system - and I can assure you working and saving files on Sharepoint work just fine.  I'm sure some functionality is disabled, but I don't need it, and never have.  I hate worthless tray icons.

This applies to Office 2010 Professional Plus, x86 edition.  If you have a different version, you'll have a different GUID.  Also, if you have project and/or visio 2010, you'll need to use their GUID.

{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x86
{90140000-0011-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE} = Professional Plus x64
{90140000-0057-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Visio x86
{90140000-003B-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} = Project x86

I don't know the other GUIDs for the other office versions.  But if you look the format above you'll get a good idea of what is different between them.

Steps:

1) Kill all Office applications, including MSOSYNC.exe

2) Run this command from an elevated command prompt, assuming you have professional plus x86: msiexec /i{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

3) If any tasks were running, you'll need to reboot.

Afterwards, you can verify that MSOSYNC.exe is gone out of the Office14 directory underneath your program files.  If you have Visio and Project, you'll need to run the same command above with the GUIDs of those products.

/gw

Thanks a lot!

Here are the commands for Office 2013 SP1 and Visio 2013:

Office 2013
msiexec.exe /i {90150000-0012-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

Visio:
msiexec.exe /i {90150000-0053-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} REMOVE=WxpFiles

Well guys, I've tried every single solution in this thread and none of them work for Office 15 (MS Office Pro 2013) running under Windows 8.1. This is the most insidious "capability" I've ever seen. It acts just like a self replicating virus. I've deleted files, they just get recreated. I've tried renaming files, they just get recreated, I've used autoruns to disable it, it just reloads even when autoruns says it isn't loading. I've run scripts, nothing happens. I kill the process it just restarts. I made changes to the registry, no effect. I had initially uploaded all my videos (about 50GB) to One Drive and the syncing process eats up every bit of upload bandwidth I have to the point my browsers won't even work. The only solution I found was to delete everything I had on One Drive so there isn't anything to sync. So, in order to solve my problem I just don't use it. (How's that Microsoft, create a capability no one can use). Come on Microsoft how hard is it to put an "on/off" switch in place? So, you blew it with Windows 8 and 8.1 and apparently heard users to the point where you made some changes in Windows 10, I hope this is one of them. Not everyone needs or wants to use the cloud.

Jabiru

Here's what I did. 

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15 (even though I have the 64-bit version).

Make sure you can see extensions for known file types.

Find MSOSYNC.EXE and MSOUC.EXE  (one may be enough but I did both)

Rename to MSOSYNC.EXEold and MSOUC.EXEold

Create new text file.  Name it MSOSYNC.EXE (not MSOSYNC.EXE.txt).

Create another text file.  Name it MSOUC.EXE (not MSOUC.EXE.txt).

Restart Windows.  Expect this to take a lot longer than usual.

Windows and Office programs should function normally but may lag when starting up.

The Upload Center will not be in your notification area.

I wonder how much money was lost due to IT professionals not being given the option to disable an unwanted security risk... I mean "feature."  It's a good thing lawyers don't read this.

I managed to get rid of it on Windows 8 by opening Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15 and deleting the files "msouc.exe" and "msosync.exe", which of course you have to go into task manager and shut down first or it'll block them.  But it's a quick two-step process and it hasn't caused any issues since.  I like the brute force approach whenever it's viable.

This is what I did. I was just googling because I was shocked that this would be necessary. What a f***ing joke Microsoft! This is why you only get my gaming computer! Linux > DOS; bloatware shouldn't be shoved down your paying (office and OS) customers' throats.

Don't stealthily add s*** to our taskbar.

Why do you not recomend disabling something we don't want?

Thursday I saw the tab on my menu and clicked it to see what it would do; my hard drive has not yet slowed down - it is most always running at 90 to 100 % cpu usage - it tnever ran so much before i clicked on upload to web.  It is slowing down my entire system.  I want to shut it down. so why shouldn;t I?

If it will be the best/safest/most reliable sync/upload program the humanity have seen from etenity, YOU CANNOT FORCE ME TO USE IT!

My PC was booting up like 5 min, now i wait for 30-40 min to be able to use it normally. 

You shouldn't force your customers into something! This is WRONG Microsoft! You really need to respect MANY customers just don't want to use SharePoint!

If they didn't "force" people to use Sky Drive, who would use it?

Nobody.

If they didn't "force" people to use Bing, who would use it?

Nobody

They feel there is more money to be made pirating the consumer market (such as Google and Facebook do) where your users are your product (to be sold to advertisers), not your customer.  There is an old security saying, "If you aren't paying for it, you aren't the customer" which denotes "free" services which sell your info to others.  Now these companies have realized that even if you are paying for it, they can still use you as product. Microsoft has held onto the middle and large business market (not the large e-commerce market) by providing reliable software without the "freeware" component built in. Then the pull crap like this when they're upset that people aren't using their service.  I've got 3 versions of the MCSE, but this is just like their decision to make "Forefront Security" a web service instead of a server product.  Because Federal Agencies (and businesses) want to send all of their E-mail to Microsoft to see if it is infected.  I like Microsoft (hence the 3 MCSEs), but they have learned from Google that fast is more important than good and shady is better than secure.  But Google does their Quality Assurance and User testing better, so their crappy products work and are intuitive (why is my Xbox 360 have such an obnoxious interface?!).  Microsoft used to have solid products that looked crappy, but they are moving towards crappy products that look crappy.  Let's see how that works out for them.

Remember, if IE has the guts to ask to be your default browser, you should have the guts to ask that hottie out.

Surprised no one else suggested the approach I used for this. Whenever I run into non-essential self-reinstalling "helper" processes like msosync.exe, I usually just end up redirecting the execution to a stub executable that does nothing but exit as soon as it's been launched.

I don't need to delete the original executable, and it saves a lot of time that I would've spent trying to find a way to prevent the process from auto-starting or re-adding itself to startup. Unlike the file deletion approach, this will prevent msosync.exe as long as the registry keys are set. (even if you update or reinstall Office)

To redirect the executables, I add the following registry keys:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msouc.exe]
"Debugger"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Stubs\\noopw.exe\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msosync.exe]
"Debugger"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Stubs\\noopw.exe\""

The stub executable they redirect to was compiled from the following C code:

// Compile with:
// cl.exe /O1 /Os /GS- /Gm- /Zl /GL /Gy noopw.c /link /NODEFAULTLIB /INCREMENTAL:NO /FIXED /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /MACHINE:X86 /OPT:ICF /OPT:REF /LTCG "/OUT:%CommonProgramFiles(x86)%\Stubs\noopw.exe" /LARGEADDRESSAWARE kernel32.lib
// cl.exe /O1 /Os /GS- /Gm- /Zl /GL /Gy noopw.c /link /NODEFAULTLIB /INCREMENTAL:NO /FIXED /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /MACHINE:X64 /OPT:ICF /OPT:REF /LTCG "/OUT:%CommonProgramW6432%\Stubs\noopw.exe" kernel32.lib
#define UNICODE 1
#define _UNICODE 1
#define _WIN32
#define WINDOWS
#define _WINDOWS
#define _NDEBUG
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#define VC_EXTRALEAN
#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMainCRTStartup(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpOriginalCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
	ExitProcess(0);
	return 0;
}

int WINAPI wWinMainCRTStartup(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPWSTR lpOriginalCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
	ExitProcess(0);
	return 0;
}

• Edited by Charles Grunwald 16 hours 26 minutes ago

Surprised no one else suggested the approach I used for this. Whenever I run into non-essential self-reinstalling "helper" processes like msosync.exe, I usually just end up redirecting the execution to a stub executable that does nothing but exit as soon as it's been launched.

I don't need to delete the original executable, and it saves a lot of time that I would've spent trying to find a way to prevent the process from auto-starting or re-adding itself to startup. Unlike the file deletion approach, this will prevent msosync.exe as long as the registry keys are set. (even if you update or reinstall Office)

To redirect the executables, I add the following registry keys:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msouc.exe]
"Debugger"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Stubs\\noopw.exe\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msosync.exe]
"Debugger"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Stubs\\noopw.exe\""

The stub executable they redirect to was compiled from the following C code:

// Compile with:
// cl.exe /O1 /Os /GS- /Gm- /Zl /GL /Gy noopw.c /link /NODEFAULTLIB /INCREMENTAL:NO /FIXED /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /MACHINE:X86 /OPT:ICF /OPT:REF /LTCG "/OUT:%CommonProgramFiles(x86)%\Stubs\noopw.exe" /LARGEADDRESSAWARE kernel32.lib
// cl.exe /O1 /Os /GS- /Gm- /Zl /GL /Gy noopw.c /link /NODEFAULTLIB /INCREMENTAL:NO /FIXED /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /MACHINE:X64 /OPT:ICF /OPT:REF /LTCG "/OUT:%CommonProgramW6432%\Stubs\noopw.exe" kernel32.lib
#define UNICODE 1
#define _UNICODE 1
#define _WIN32
#define WINDOWS
#define _WINDOWS
#define _NDEBUG
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#define VC_EXTRALEAN
#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMainCRTStartup(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpOriginalCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
	ExitProcess(0);
	return 0;
}

int WINAPI wWinMainCRTStartup(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPWSTR lpOriginalCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
	ExitProcess(0);
	return 0;
}

• Edited by Charles Grunwald Saturday, August 22, 2015 3:03 PM