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Old March 2nd 14, 03:52 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ed Cryer
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I switched on my Win8.1 desktop today, and got on with some other stuff.
When I came back it had logged into a temporary account; messages saying
this is a temporary account and all files will go when you log out. The
Skydrive folder was opened full-screen.
WTBHF? What, why, where, when, and how?

I logged out, logged in (normal and good) and found that all the
Skydrive sync settings were ticked. I unticked the lot.

Has anyone else had this? Maybe something to do with a recent update.

Ed


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Old March 2nd 14, 08:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ed Cryer
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Ken1943 wrote:
On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 14:52:03 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote:

I switched on my Win8.1 desktop today, and got on with some other stuff.
When I came back it had logged into a temporary account; messages saying
this is a temporary account and all files will go when you log out. The
Skydrive folder was opened full-screen.
WTBHF? What, why, where, when, and how?

I logged out, logged in (normal and good) and found that all the
Skydrive sync settings were ticked. I unticked the lot.

Has anyone else had this? Maybe something to do with a recent update.

Ed

That's why I killed it. This "cloud" stuff is just asking for trouble.


KenW


I don't like that stuff either. That's why I turned it all off (or
thought I had) at setup.
It's sneaked up on me. And it must have been a recent update, because it
was sailing along nicely until that happened.
MS have incorporated Skydrive into Win8's kernel; and the default is "on".
Simply to remove the icon from the systray takes a registry hack.


Ed

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Old March 3rd 14, 12:47 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
BillW50
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On 3/2/2014 5:26 PM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2014-03-02 2:28 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
[...]
I don't like [Skydrive] either. That's why I turned it all off (or
thought I had) at setup.
It's sneaked up on me. And it must have been a recent update, because it
was sailing along nicely until that happened.
MS have incorporated Skydrive into Win8's kernel; and the default is
"on".
Simply to remove the icon from the systray takes a registry hack.


Ed


I don't have a Skydrive icon on the taskbar. When I installed Win8, I
did not create a Skydrive account, and it looks like that's equivalent
to not activating it.

If that's not the case, I'd like to know how to eliminate it (as much as
is possible, that is).


If you never created a Skydrive account, nothing to worry about. I have
one but I store nothing there and I don't worry.

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Bill
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Old March 3rd 14, 01:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Roderick Stewart
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On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:47:48 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

If you never created a Skydrive account, nothing to worry about. I have
one but I store nothing there and I don't worry.


-until somebody else hacks into it and pretends to be you. :-)

Rod.
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Old March 3rd 14, 03:08 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ed Cryer
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Wolf K wrote:
On 2014-03-02 2:28 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
[...]
I don't like [Skydrive] either. That's why I turned it all off (or
thought I had) at setup.
It's sneaked up on me. And it must have been a recent update, because it
was sailing along nicely until that happened.
MS have incorporated Skydrive into Win8's kernel; and the default is
"on".
Simply to remove the icon from the systray takes a registry hack.


Ed


I don't have a Skydrive icon on the taskbar. When I installed Win8, I
did not create a Skydrive account, and it looks like that's equivalent
to not activating it.

If that's not the case, I'd like to know how to eliminate it (as much as
is possible, that is).


I ended up with a Skydrive due to automatic creation of it by MS when
they changed to that from its predecessor. I had some large files on it
that I edit and make available for people; and I wanted to retain them.

I think I've got the thing set ok now; keep Skydrive and disable auto
syncing on the computer's settings.

Ed

P.S. I have so much free online storage that it staggers me to think
just how much there must actually be for all of us Joe Soaps.
My Skydrive and Dropbox alone add up to about 7GB; and I'm probably not
using more than about 2% of that.



 




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