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There are a lot of reasons why you may wish to disable and turn off the annoying Windows Live Mail Skydrive from you personal Windows Live Mail (2010, 2011 and further versions) account. The first thing the average user considers when it comes to getting rid of the useful Microsoft Skydrive web service is privacy. In fact, if you attach a picture or a photo to your email messages, Windows Live Mail will store them to SkyDrive automatically and by default. As a consequence, the recipient will only see small thumbnails. If he wants to see the original picture he will have to download it from SkyDrive. This apparent meaningless behaviour is due to the very nature of the web service itself whose primary goal is to “provide enough free storage for thousands of documents and photos” so that you will be able to share them later with your friends thanks to handy photo albums. The issue is that all your private stuff will be stored online without your consent. Useless to say, a lot of users are against this. So, let’s see how to protect our important files and stop the SkyDrive automated behaviour permanently.
Let me tell you that you can not turn off SkyDrive as it is part (feature) of Windows Live Mail. Period. Don’t look futher because this is what a Microsoft IT told me. Also, Microsoft didn’t provide any proper solution to this issue. The online storage service is on by default and the user can not do anything to disable it. However, in order to stop it from harvesting your private files you can perform the following actions:
- If you want to prevent the Skydrive from collecting your photos (and other files) follow these steps. In Windows Live Mail, click Insert on the Menu bar and insert your pictures, images and photos.
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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 28th, 2011
REMOVE SKY DRIVE FROM MY WINDOWS MAIL!!!!!!!!!!
OR IF I CAN DISABLE SKY DRIVE FROM MAIL/EMAIL ME INSTRUCTIONS.
THANKS
June 8th, 2011
This did not work. I insert the photos and I still get the stinking skydrive album popping up.
Why in heck don’t the programmers let real everyday people run these programs to let them know what the non-geeks need?
All we want to do is turn off skydrive.
How freaking hard is that?
September 6th, 2011
How do I disable Skydrive? I used it once, and now I can’t even email a simple Word or Excel document without it going through Skydrive & it’s really annoying. I just want to be able to send a simple attachment. People can’t open it, it says Silverlight and they don’t know what that means, and it’s confusing to them when they just want a straightforward file. Please send me instructions to turn off or disable Skydrive / Silverlight. Thank you so much. Your help would be greatly appreciated!
October 5th, 2011
I am going to Google with Thunderbirdbecause I cannot turn off Skydrive.
January 16th, 2012
I agree with Maureen. I find this more of a nuisance than a help: there should be an opt-out option. Skydrive saves space allowing large files to be accessed which would ordinarily have send-capacity issues.
My major problem is when sending to Businesses – they can access the files as their servers block Skydrive, as it’s related to Hotmail which they dont want their staff accessing during Work time……………..
Absolute pain. Did nobody think of these consequences?!!
February 7th, 2012
I have found a way to get rid of skydrive. go into control panel and uninstall windows live essentials 2010/2011, the problem with skydrive is that is is incorporated software in the package so we don’t get an option whether we want it or not.
February 19th, 2012
How do I UNINSTALL skydrive which is a censored and a spynetworkfuncian-
ned network to look in our private life on email ( as if they (google don`t allready look in our lifes ). I do not want american false believings and puritanism- believing in a moral (theirs) forced on me or the civilised world in our part of the world. BEEEP skydrive and all kinds of spynetwork- I have no hope that my words will ever be read- BIG BROTHER 1984