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Missing OneDrive context menu in windows 10
Hi, I'm missing the context menu on synced OneDrive for Business files. The icons on the cloud status are visible, but in the right-click menu I have no section on OneDrive. So no chance of changin...
donreak Hi there,
Our documentation changes with time and the article I previously mention is one of them.
For the OneDrive missing context menu we have now this one - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-to-change-the-user-account-control-policies-to-allow-onedrive-context-menus-1f957672-848d-48bb-bfe8-5af828613211
Hope this helps
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\SystemEnableLUA 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.
Waddo Thanks for this advice as enabling UAC worked for me. Context menus are now present.
clren, that solution worked for me as well
- Awesome mate. Hopefully MS will fix this properly one day.
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 /AllUsersSpeier 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.
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 .:)
