 Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I will have another episode of Windows 11 Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about how to stop one drive from syncing everything on your computer. If this is your first time or if you visit, thank you for your support. On this channel I'm also trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box this is the channel to subscribe. If you're only looking for tutorial videos there will be links in the description box below. So I just upgraded to Windows 11 and the first thing happened to me is that you know my OneDrive cloud storage started giving me notification that my drive is full which could not have been because you know I just have a very limited files in OneDrive folders and out of 5 gig space I use only one gig. So what I noticed that when you switch to Windows 11 by default OneDrive starts seeking everything from your desktop or from your documents and as a result drive 5 gig storage was full within like 10-15 minutes and I had to delete you know all the files manually and it was a big hassle. So in today's video I'll show you how we can stop OneDrive seeking everything from your computer and this is just very easy and simple to do. So the first thing you're going to be doing is just click right here and here you're going to see OneDrive. Now if you do not see OneDrive then other way you can open it is just click on the search box and search for OneDrive and then here you're going to see OneDrive. So click on it and then it's just going to open OneDrive and then here you're going to click right click from here and then from here you're going to right click and then if you go to OneDrive then here you're going to go to settings and basically we're going to be dealing with this section but I'll just close this and go back from here the hidden icon. So just go here right click here and then here you're going to see help and settings and also here you're going to see settings so if you click on it then it's going to bring you to this tab or section where you're going to see settings it counts backup. So let's start with settings. If you want OneDrive to stop automatically you know start when you sign in to Windows then you can just uncheck that but I do not recommend that because that way it's not going to run every time you start your computer or sign into Windows and so you can just like you know keep it checked and we are going to move on to the next section which is accounts. Now if you'd like to unlink OneDrive from this PC then you have to just click here but the problem with this is that this is not going to save you're not going to be able to save anything in OneDrive if you'd like so you know I don't recommend that either and here the next tab if you go to backup and what happens here important PC folders here you're going to see that you know if I click on manage backup and by default OneDrive is choosing all these folders to save and as a result you know it fill up completely very fast so you have to just uncheck all these and then if you x that then it's not going to save those folders anymore and here you have more options that if you'd like to save automatically photos and videos then you can check that but I don't see any need for that because it's going to fill up your 5 gig free space very fast so basically this is what you're going to be doing and then just go back to account tab again and here you can actually choose your folders which will be available on this computer so basically let's say you have OneDrive synced let's say 10 folders but you don't want all folders to show on this computer so if you choose here it's going to show all the folders you want on this computer and let's say if you don't want some folders you can just uncheck them and those folders are not going to be available on this computer but they will still be available on cloud but you're not going to be able to see them on here so you might want to do that if you are if you don't need some folders to be appearing on this computer then you can do that so basically that's how you can un-sync or stop OneDrive seeking everything from your computer thank you for watching this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you