How to delete the SkyDrive Pro entry from the right-click menu of Windowscommunity

If you use suite Microsoft Office 2013, You probably noticed that after installing in right-click menu from Windows there is a new entry, namely SkyDrive ProTotally useless for users who do not use Microsoft SharePoint (This is meant to synchronize files with a Microsoft SharePoint server, Having no connection with SkyDrive client for ordinary users).

SkyDrive-pro-in-context-menu

If you right-click menu is too busy (especially when used to add more options for faster access to Utilities / feature sites but by Windows), and you want to delete entry SkyDrive Pro thereof, the following instructions will definitely be helpful.

How to remove SkyDrive Pro from Windows context Menu

  • open registry Editor (type: regedit in RunThen give OK) And navigate to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects \ shell
allfilesystemobjects-shell key-in registry
  • under shell, In the left pane, right-click the subkey SPFS.ContextMenu and select Delete
SkyDrive pro-remove-from-context-menu
  • then close regedit

And ready. Entry SkyDrive Pro will disappear Windows context MenuWithout preventing normal operation SkyDrive software.

Note: You can delete the SkyDrive Pro entry from the Menu context and through Command Prompt, using one of the following commands:

  • for users Windows 32-bit: 
regsvr32 /u "%programfiles%\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL"
  • for users Windows 64-bit:
regsvr32 /u "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL"

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