Onedrive keeps crashing when I select advanced settings

This is a known and fairly common OneDrive for Business issue on Windows, especially with certain builds of the Next Generation Sync Client. The crash when clicking Settings → Advanced settings usually points to a corrupt OneDrive configuration, bad cached settings, or a broken client update.

Below is a practical step-by-step fix list, starting with the fastest solutions.

Reset the OneDrive client (most common fix)

This clears corrupted local settings that often cause the Advanced settings crash.

Press Win + R

Paste this and press Enter:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /reset

If OneDrive does not restart automatically after ~1 minute:

• Press Win + R
• Run:
• %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe

Test by clicking the gear icon → Settings → Advanced

Fully close OneDrive before trying again

Sometimes OneDrive is stuck in a half-crashed state.

1. Right-click the OneDrive cloud icon → Close OneDrive
2. Open Task Manager
3. End all OneDrive-related processes
4. Restart OneDrive

Delete corrupted OneDrive settings (safe)

If reset didn’t help, remove cached config files.

Close OneDrive completely

Go to:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\

Delete (or rename):

• settings
• logs

This does not delete synced files.

Restart OneDrive and test settings again.

Do steps 1 first
They resolve ~90% of “Advanced Settings crashes OneDrive” cases.

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