Microsoft Office continues to add new features with every edition, with
Office 2016 offering plenty of reasons to upgrade. However, some people see
these new features as bloat and thus stick with older versions, even going so
far as to still use Office 2003 today. One feature that may puzzle you is the
Microsoft Office Upload Center, introduced in Office 2010 and living on through
2013 and 2016. Let’s examine what this feature actually does, and see how you
can disable it if you find it annoying. What Does the Upload Center Do? Older
versions of Office were designed to save documents, spreadsheets, and other
Office files only to your local hard drive. With the integration of OneDrive
and an emphasis on cloud storage in modern versions, however, Microsoft
included the Upload Center. Its purpose is to help you when uploading documents
to “web servers,” as they put it (in effect, uploading to OneDrive). Blackberry Display Picture, Find Here!
The Upload Center isn’t useless,
though. Microsoft’s help article explains a few situations where it’s useful:
mainly when you’re working on a remote file in OneDrive and you lose the
connection. You can save the document at any time and have a local copy, and
the Upload Center will take care of updating the server copy when it
re-connects. As mentioned, it also lets you know of syncing errors sooner
rather than later. If you upload tens of documents at once to OneDrive or
frequently deal with poor wireless connections, MS Upload Center is useful for
you and you probably shouldn’t disable it. For those who only work on the
occasional file in Office or don’t even use OneDrive, it’s extraneous and can
be disabled to save resources. Removing the Notification Icon If you don’t mind
the Upload Center doing its thing behind the scenes, but don’t want its icon in
your system tray (aka notification area), you can remove the icon without
completely stopping the program. Oh, Microsoft Office Upload Center, what did I
ever do to you? Can you just work without problems for one day? One day!? —
Cathrine Wilhelmsen (@cathrinew) March 23, 2015 When the Upload Center is
running, right-click its icon in the system tray and choose Settings to open
the Upload Center’s window. You can also open this by browsing in your All
Programs list in the Start Menu: For Office 2010, go to Microsoft Office
> Microsoft Office 2010 Tools > Microsoft Office 2010 Upload
Manager. For Office 2013, it’s under Microsoft Office 2013 > Office 2013
Tools > Office 2013 Upload Center. For Office 2016, browse for Microsoft
Office 2016 Tools > Office 2016 Upload Center. Once there, you’ll see a
(hopefully) blank box of your pending uploads. Click Settings above this box to
open the options menu. In this menu, simply uncheck the box for Display icon in
notification area and it won’t show up in your system tray anymore. Note that
the program is still running and can be accessed using the Start menu as above.
Disable Upload Center Completely Want to go beyond disabling the notification
and shut down the Upload Center completely? The process varies depending on
which version of Windows and Office you’re using, as Microsoft has made the
feature complicated to disable. Note that I use Office 2013 on Windows 7, so I
haven’t been able to test each of these methods. Your results may vary, so try
all the methods and see which works for you. First, if you’re using Office
2010, try removing the process from startup by typing MSConfig into the Search
bar. On the Startup tab, check for the MSOSYNC entry and disable it, if you
find it there. You can also disable any instance of Microsoft Office 2010 here
since that doesn’t need to run at startup either. Another method that’s
reported to only work for Office 2010 on Windows 7 is to edit the Registry. As
always, be careful if you do this to avoid damaging your computer. Browse to
this location in the Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Here, delete the OfficeSyncProcess value and after restarting, Upload Center
should be gone. Whoever designed the Microsoft Office Upload Center needs a
beating. — Jon Hassell (@jghassell) August 26, 2013 If you’re using Office
2013, you can try to remove the Upload Center from running through the Task
Scheduler. Type Task Scheduler into the Start menu to open it, then click Task
Scheduler Library in the pane on the left. Browse the resulting menu for the
task Microsoft Office 15 Sync Maintenance for USERNAME and right-click to
Disable it. More Methods If none of the above ways worked to disable Upload
Center for you, here are a few more to try. Users of Office 2016 on Windows 10,
which features deeper OneDrive integration, can right-click the OneDrive icon
in their taskbar and choose Settings. The first tab has an option titled Use
Office to work on files with other people at the same time — disabling this
should shut off the Upload Center. Note that if you actually use Office’s
collaboration features, this action might be overkill and disable features you
need. The last possible way is the guerrilla solution — trick your computer
into thinking that the executable file for Upload Center doesn’t exist. This
could cause errors since Windows will be confused, but if nothing else has
worked up to this point, you might consider those errors less annoying than the
Upload Center. For Office 2013, browse to the file’s location at: C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office15 Here, rename the file msosync.exe so Windows
won’t recognize it and therefore won’t load it. If you don’t want to do this, a
slightly tedious, but effective solution is to open the Task Manager each time
you start your computer and kill the msosync.exe process — this should disable
Upload Center until you restart. Again, none of these methods are guaranteed to
work, so you might get lucky with the first or have to try all of them.
Thankfully, Upload Center isn’t too invasive, so you shouldn’t have a hard time
learning to live with it if you can’t remove it. Just hide the icon and pretend
it isn’t there.
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