{"id":2474,"date":"2016-03-29T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T04:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:55:36","slug":"onedrive-launch-nothing-happens-disablefilesyncngsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/onedrive-launch-nothing-happens-disablefilesyncngsc\/","title":{"rendered":"OneDrive Does Not Start After Running a Privacy Tool in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you double-click the OneDrive shortcut or run the OneDrive.exe executable directly, the application doesn&#8217;t open and no OneDrive icon is shown in the Notification area.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This could happen if the OneDrive has been disabled by a Policy setting, either manually or by using a 3rd party program. For example, if you used <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/spybot-anti-beacon\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spybot Anti-Beacon<\/a> to stop tracking issues in the Operating System, you may have inadvertently disabled OneDrive. To make OneDrive function again, disable the Policy in the respective program.<\/p>\n<p>Alternately, right-click Start, and click Command Prompt (Admin). Type the following command and press {ENTER}:<\/p>\n<pre><code>reg add HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\OneDrive \/v DisableFileSyncNGSC \/t REG_DWORD \/d 0 \/f<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>(or)<\/p>\n<pre>reg delete HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\OneDrive \/v DisableFileSyncNGSC \/f<\/pre>\n<p>This removes the <b>DisableFileSyncNGSC<\/b> value or sets it to 0. This registry value corresponds to the following GPO.<\/p>\n<pre>Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage<\/pre>\n<p>Under this section:<\/p>\n<pre>Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | OneDrive<\/pre>\n<p>No reboot required after modifying the setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you double-click the OneDrive shortcut or run the OneDrive.exe executable directly, the application doesn&#8217;t open and no OneDrive icon is shown in the Notification area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-onedrive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27060,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/onedrivesetup-error-newer-version-onedrive-installed\/","url_meta":{"origin":2474,"position":0},"title":"OneDrive Setup: &#8220;A newer version of OneDrive is installed&#8221; Error","author":"Ramesh","date":"August 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"When you try to install OneDrive using the OneDrive Setup file (onedrivesetup.exe) downloaded from Microsoft, the following error may occur: Microsoft OneDrive Setup A newer version of OneDrive is installed You need to uninstall it first before installing this version. 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