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michaellinder:
I really dislike and do not need OneDrive, but it's baked in to Windows 10. The best we can do is hide or disable it, but it's not that easy. Though I uninstalled OneDrive in Control Panel, and turned off every activation instance I could find, the program still persists in stashing my stuff in impossible, secret places — not on the Microsoft Cloud, but in OneDrive folders it creates on its own initiative. I've just discovered that all my desktop content is squirreled away in a OneDrive folder, not in Windows/Users/me/desktop. It's infected Outlook, adding unnecessary "(this computer only)" status to all my folders. Several third-party programs default file-save only to new OneDrive locations. 

A long email exchange with Microsoft support led to this "fix": Delete your Microsoft account, even though this will kill all purchased apps from the Microsoft Store, delete all Skype credits, remove me from all support threads, and possibly disable my phone — among other warnings. In an hours-long phone conversation with Microsoft — the company has NO OneDrive support team — a supervisor apologized for none of his agents having been trained in OneDrive, though he advised against such radical surgery.

We reinstalled OneDrive and its App. Still, the blue or white One Drive logo did not appear in the taskbar to enable a disable. Then, on clicking Sign Out in the app, Microsoft's streaming dots simply squirmed around for hours without accomplishing the task. I've spent hours with Microsoft on this issue and all I got was a useless case number — but no fix. If anyone can wrestle this gawd-awful program into submission, it has to be Tweaking.com which has saved my bacon in other ways.

Fingers crossed.     

Boggin:
The icon could be hidden.

I'm not sure if this article gives you what you want, as you'll still want access to your files in a normal way - but see what it does for you.

https://support.office.com/en-GB/article/Turn-off-or-uninstall-OneDrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

michaellinder:
Thanks for the suggestion, but as I've pointed out, reinstalling OneDrive and its app under guidance of Microsoft Phone Support, the blue or white OneDrive icon still does not appear in taskbar or in its hidden icons pop up box. Meantime, OneDrive continues to move my desktop content and saved files to mysterious OneDrive folders and subfolders. I was hoping Tweaking.com might speed a OneDrive reset in its Pro version to cure this ill in the same way it's been able to reset other Windows functions.

Boggin:
I don't know if WR will reset OneDrive or if it would be as you want it - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/forum/odstart-oduninstall-sdwin10/full-reset-of-onedrive-on-windows-10/12a357f8-7773-4856-bf0c-0ecd308f4184

As for the icon to change the settings, have you tried - Start - Settings cog - Personalization - Taskbar then scrolled down to Notification Area - Select which icons appear on the Taskbar to see if it is listed and if toggling it will get it to appear if it is there.

I forget what I did to get rid of OneDrive, but it isn't listed in my items.

michaellinder:
Oddly, One Drive doesn't appear in the list of Icons that appear on the Taskbar, despite it and its app being installed. It's also not among the "Turn system icons on or off" list either. I deleted OneDrive and deleted the OneDrive app via Control Panel. Right-clicking the OneNote app and selecting Uninstall switched me to Control Panel's Uninstall menu which has no listing for OneNote.

Anyway, I performed the full repair of Office 365 to see if it would clear the superfluous "This computer only" tags on all my Outlook email address folders. It did not, but it reinstalled OneDrive yet again — which I have deleted yet again.

Sure enough, on relaunching Office 365 I was required to sign in with my Microsoft account, which, if I had followed the advice of Microsoft Support's emails and deleted the account to kill OneDrive, I would have no longer had access to Office. Those guys are clueless, capable of inflicting serious damage through their sheer ignorance of Windows. Such are the rewards of patronizing the platform continuously since Windows 3.1.

Perhaps tomorrow I'll reinstall OneDrive and run %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset to see what gives, but having uninstalled and reinstalled the program so many times without the ability to shut it down I'm not too hopeful, only burned out.   :sarcastic:

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