Hiding OneDrive from the Start Menu?

[Garacesh]

So. Cloudy stuff. Urgh. I dislike it on principle, but it's growing in demand and I'm having to sink my teeth into it.

 

Using Group Policy, I've enabled Computer Configuration, Policies, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, OneDrive, Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage which stops users launching the OneDrive app.

 

To remove OneDrive from the left-hand-side of File Explorer, I've apply the following registry keys via GPO

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}]
"System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}]
"System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:00000000

 

Using these settings, users can still sign in to OneDrive via Microsoft Office 2013, and load/save data from/to their OneDrive folders, they just can't map the drive through the OneDrive app. (They couldn't do that anyway, as the OneDrive app doesn't recognise their credentials as a Microsoft account, though Office does. Don't know why.)

 

My problem is that, like the Settings link, I can't get rid of OneDrive from the Start Menu. Redirecting the Start Menu gets rid of everything except Settings, and then a few minutes in the OneDrive app appears there, too. Just like the Settings button, if you click it, it does nothing (thanks to the earlier mentioned GPO) so I'd like to hide it if possible.

Edited May 12, 2016 by Garacesh

[alfatec]

I amend the default profile to stop it running for all users. Follow the bits below:

reg load "hku\Default" "C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT"

reg delete HKU\default\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v OneDriveSetup /f

reg unload "hku\Default"

 

Obviously this will only apply to new users after you have amended the profile. I have it built into my main image.