Lets start with Skydrive

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Hi All,

I'm sure you get lots of people coming here desperate after installing win 8 so I'll try to keep it relatively brief. This site has come up a number of times in my google searches so I thought it would be a good place to sign up.

I've been building machines for 20 years, which usually involves a clean install on a new machine, stripping that to an absolute minimum for my needs and then carefully installing drivers and software.

I got my first laptop yesterday, which came with an oem version of win 8 64 (home or whatever they're calling the consumer version). As I'm sure you can appreciate it was an absolute nightmare. I felt like the guy in one of those 'dad tests' even though I'm pretty tech savvy.

I'm a power user and like to set things up and be able to access things which win 8 wants to hide from people.

First I had to install over a hundred updates, then 3.6gb of win 8.1 which took hours, I some how figured out how to get to the windows update section. It was a living nightmare pretty much.

After installing classic shell I had some semblance of normality. I right clicked all the tiles I could and uninstalled the apps, used ccleaner to reduce startup load etc.
Something I CANNOT get rid of is skydrive, despite uninstalling it it's still running in the processes section. I'd like to completely eradicate it from my machine. I don't want to hide it, I'd like it gone.

That's pretty much the theme for my experience with win 8 so far, it's impossible to find things and when you do things aren't actually gone. There's many other things I'd like to address but lets start with this one ;)

There's a lot of helpful people on here from what I've seen so hopefully someone can help me out, thanks in advance.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win 8 64

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
Hi Shawn,

Thanks for the link and the registry entry, I got stuck at the gpedit.msc stage because the home version doesn't have that.

You're a legend for all the time it must take to make all this info available. Win 7 was so customizable and win 8 is less so (at least on the surface).
The good news is I feel like I'm winning the battle a bit more today and made some good progress overnight.

The next couple of things on my list are removing the email address from my sign in/username because I used some profane language in protest at HAVING to enter some details in order to create a profile so it's probably not ideal if 'FkOffMS@outlook.com' comes up every time I log in. ;) I have managed to change my username online (the only way to change it from what I can tell) but there doesn't seem to be any setting to display email address.
The other one was the mousepad area dedicated to bringing up the charm bar. I'm sure there's a keyboard shortcut for that I can learn so it could be disabled altogether rather that trying to reduce the active edge area.

You seem like a bit of a genius when it comes to win8 so I'm sure you'll have the perfect answer.

Thanks again.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win 8 64
Glad that could help.

You could use the tutorial below to disable edge swipes for your touchpad.
I'm not sure what can be done about the email address showing other than switching to a local account. However, a local account will not be able to use any modern apps (ex: OneDrive, Mail, etc...) that use a Microsoft service.
If you like, you could also set Windows to require user to enter both a user name (email address) and password to not see the email address.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
you can add and remove accounts in settings /users, you can create a new Microsoft account that you could add it via the charms bar,setting ,acct,and add it ,then when you boot the you will get the choice of 2 accts ,now that much i just did on my computer ,iam assuming i could now deleted my old acct ,but im sure i will loose all my apps and setting ,so that as far as i can go with trying this ,but at least i could get rid of an account i no longer want to use . so you can change it but it will be a new and you would have to install the apps over again ,and it might be wise to back up data and other files before you try it
info found here
How to remove Microsoft account from Windows 8 PC, laptop or tablet - PC Advisor
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win8.1.1 enterprise
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Hinze57
    CPU
    AMD FX 6100 6core 3.30gHz
    Motherboard
    gigibyte ga-78lmy-s2p
    Memory
    4gig ddr3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Radon hd5000 Series
    Sound Card
    onboard realtek hd
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19" viewsonic/ 22"Samsung
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    128gig ssd Kingston
    80gig WD 10000 rpm spinner
    Case
    micro
    Keyboard
    microsoft curve 200
    Mouse
    Logitech wireless M215
    Internet Speed
    high speed 20
    Browser
    ie 11
    Antivirus
    windows defender
    Other Info
    updated enterprise apr 2/14
The next couple of things on my list are removing the email address from my sign in/username because I used some profane language in protest at HAVING to enter some details in order to create a profile so it's probably not ideal if 'FkOffMS@outlook.com' comes up every time I log in.

It's not required that you enter an Microsoft email address. You can enter anything that looks like an email address, and then when it fails click the link that you want to use a local account.

Using local accounts, however, won't be able to use most modern apps, which may not be a big deal for many people. Just something to be aware of.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    CPU
    Intel i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77X-UD4 TH
    Memory
    16GB DDR3 1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia GTX 650
    Sound Card
    Onboard Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Auria 27" IPS + 2x Samsung 23"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440 + 2x 2048x1152
    Hard Drives
    Corsair m4 256GB, 2 WD 2TB drives
    Case
    Antec SOLO II
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
    Mouse
    Logitech MX
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