If you’ve installed Office 2013, you might have came across grayed out SkyDrive Pro option on the right-click menu of a selected Folder in Windows 7, if you’re wondering with the questions in your mind like what is SkyDrive Pro? Why it is disabled on right-click menu? As SkyDrive desktop client already installed, then what is the Purpose of SkyDrive Pro and for whom? Here are the answers.
This option is intended for business users, but tied to Home Premium Preview of Office 365, it is part of both SharePoint service in Office 365 and server. Installed SkyDrive Pro allows to sync contents from it to your Computer, we’re still unclear and confused about this.
Why to bother? For a typical desktop user, its unnecessary clutter on the context menu and of no use IMO and here is how you can remove it from the Windows Explorer Context menu.
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Removing SkyDrive Pro entry from Context Menu in Windows 7
1. Open registry editor from Run Command by typing regedit
2. Navigate to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\shell\SPFS.Context menu”
3. Right-click on it (left pane) and select “ Delete” option to remove this key and all its sub keys.
Note: The above method successfully removes SkyDrive Pro from the context menu, you don’t need to restart your Computer. You’re warned, so think twice and decide before following this method, try at your own risk.
Update: Don’t want to edit Registry? We’ve commands for you to unregister GROOVEEX.DLL which is related to Skydrive Pro.
Open Command Prompt as administrator and run the following command
If you’re on 32-bit: regsvr32 /u “%programfiles%\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL”
For 64-bit: regsvr32 /u “%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL”
If you’ve any doubts ask us in the comments.
Thanks for the info. After < 24 hours of frustration, I ended up removing Office 2013. Apparently the uninstaller forget to remove the SkyDrive Pro context menu item. Go figure!
Ha!ha so you removed Office 2013 for sake of Skydrive Pro option, hope this will be useful for you if you reinstall Office next time.
I tried this, but I got an error “cannot delete. error while deleting key”? I’m on Windows 7, 64 bit, admin.
Should work on 64-bit too, please try the steps mentioned in the post again and know what happened.
A much better way of doing this is by running this:
regsvr32 /u “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL”
Definitely better if it works,since I had already uninstalled office 2013 preview I can’t test now on my machine, registry method I covered above isn’t difficult either.
Thanks
you’re welcome here.
I´m really thankful, it worked with me! Thank you guys!
Welcome.
Thanks! Worked like a charm. (Using Windows 8 Pro)
there is no better way to annoy me then to add garbage context menu. i even did a custom install and deselected onenote and skydrive for this exact reason. but what do you know i still get context menus. here is an easier way to remove the context menu.
open cmd prompt as admin and run one of the commands below depending if you installed x64 or x86.
regsvr32 /u “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL”
regsvr32 /u “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL”
Tried above in several diferent machines, didn’t work at all.
Nothing but the registry trick works.
Thanks a lot
Thanks it worked.
Glad to know that, and you’re welcome.
If you have a Office 2013 Pro RETAIL on Windows 7 x64 with this shitty Click-Once installer you have to remove it like this
regsvr32 / u “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\vfs\ProgramFilesX64\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL”
This works great for the Office 365 2013 on Windows 7 x64.
Thank you.
(For others: I had to retype the command line as pasting didn’t work for some reason, and remove the space after the switch (/u).
Thanks. it works!
You’re welcome.
He wrote Navigate to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\shell\SPFS.Context menu” it should be…
Navigate to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\shell\SPFS.Context menu” no space between Context and menu.
Works! Thanks!