Missing OneDrive context menu in windows 10

clren, that solution worked for me as well

BallsOfSteel420 this fixed it for me!  thank you!!!!  people, follow this instruction

BallsOfSteel420 This simple solution worked for me; thank you. If I may, it is even simpler; you don't have to uninstall OneDrive at all. Just quit the running instance, then run the command 

# I'm using PowerShell Core
.\OneDriveSetup.exe /AllUsers

retsel9611 

Here you go https://youtu.be/k1WndSWS5ZQ 

Waddo ,

Thanks.

Enabling UAC worked for me. I had to disable it to install an work related application.

Speier  could you help me to install the one drive file downloaded from the link you provided via cmd. The .exe file is located in my downloads section in C I am just an average computer and i am not savvy in using cmd. Please help

BallsOfSteel420 Great find, thanks for sharing.  That worked for me.  I can't help with your hate issues for the UAC 😉

For those who might not be familiar with Powershell, you will need to run the command that BallsOfSteel420 mentioned as ".\onedrivesetup.exe /AllUsers"

Download latest OneDriveSetup HERE  

No need to re-enable UAC.

- Open Programs and Features

- Remove Onedrive

- Download latest Onedrive installer (use Google/Bing to look for link)

- Use cmd/powershell to install it with "OneDriveSetup.exe /AllUsers"

- It'll start syncing and show the context menu just fine with UAC off

Glad I found the switch here and glad I don't have to use UAC.

I hate UAC.

jcdecker71 

In my case OneDrive on 1909 was not running for some reason. Might have been as a result of a reboot after an WU had gone off as the auto login to Windows was nixed as well. No other issues with UAC, but as others can attest, it's a Home edition, which cuts out a lot of troubleshooting options.

Just went to this directory and started OneDrive.exe

 C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\

OneDrive on the Context menu is back!

Offtopic: Waddo can we have a chat- it's related to Sophos. Thanks .:)

Waddo Thanks for this advice as enabling UAC worked for me.  Context menus are now present. 

Waddo Wow, someone in charge of "a 1000 systems" who doesn't have the reading comprehension of a 6 year old. Scary.

He didn't say your fix worked, he said he was skeptical. 

The fix _I_ posted also comes from Microsoft. So apology necessary from YOU.

If you have an older installed version of Windows 10, prior to 1903, the installed version does not have this issue. 

Check yourself pal.

PhillipM glad you got it sorted with the UAC change, thanks for the update. UAC is annoying but it is there for a reason.

We run over 1000 windows 10 machines in different locations around the globe and this is always the fix. We have had different System Admins make changes to UAC for certain APPs, like remote install of Sophos AV, and straight away One Drive Context menu disappears. Revert back = Fixed.

BentleyC - As you can see nothing to do with the installer. UAC is the solution. Why are you installing One drive when it is built in? Thats the bit that has me stumped. Apology not required. You are spreading mis information. Even Microsoft have posted the fix for this which is UAC. 🙂

One drive is built in, no install required, so nothing to do with the installer, did you just make that up or have real world experience going around in circles with this? One Drive is installed already on the win10 machines from new build, so you just sign in as each user for different profiles and Bingo you have one drive with no installation. All our Staff when Hot desk simply login to the Desktop and using SSO they have one drive automatically.

WaddoNow that I think of it and realize what we mean by UAC, that seems highly unlikely to fix my problem because I have UAC disabled on 2 computers, but only my laptop is having the context menu issue. Nonetheless, I adjusted the UAC slider and I'm about to check my context menus after rebooting. If that doesn't fix it (or if the fix doesn't persist after I disable UAC again because frankly, I find UAC to be more annoying than helpful/protective), I'll try running the installer with BentleyC's extra argument, and go from there if that doesn't work. Will edit or reply to this message accordingly within about half an hour.

thank you both for the help, in any event.

edit: okay, I guess I stand corrected. While UAC probably isn't the cause of the problem, enabling it, restarting, and then disabling it and restarting again seems to have fixed my issue. Thanks Waddo 

PhillipM maybe you can try this to enable UAC, in the search box type UAC and press enter, where is the slider on yours? You need it one down from top, then reboot.

Or go into the registry and enable it. Path 

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

EnableLUA click that and make the dword 1 in value data and reboot.

 If it was set to 0, then the above may fix it for you.