

Many people are turning to forums in frustration to turn off this feature. Microsoft's arrogance on this whole issue is astonishing: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunĪnd delete the OfficeSyncProcess entry that points to the current location of MSOSYNC.EXE. see other answers for more recent versions of Windows/Office): Here's the registry fix (only tested on Windows 7 + Office 2010.

Microsoft went out of their way to stop people from doing this in the GUI, and even MSCONFIG won't work. You can disable the Microsoft Office Upload Center easily in the registry- but this is the only way. All you can do is open task manager and end the process for MSOSYNC.EXE, pretty lame I know, but there's no way of disabling it and this info is coming from the office365 forum!" " You can't disable it and if you remove it from start up it still loads up anyway.
