Office 2016 Upload Center How do I get rid of it?

This may be a crude method - but it's the only thing that worked for me after finding no help online.

Go to C > Program Files > Microsoft Office > Root > Office16

Here you will find all the program .exe files for all the Office programs. One of these is the Upload Center program. It is called MSOUC.exe (you'll recognise it by the icon (big white arrow over an orange circle). 

Simply delete the file - then Upload Center no longer runs. Simple!

Getting Rid of MSOUC.EXE

If you delete MSOUC.EXE, it resolves nothing, it will be reinstalled right back, OneDrive connects to Microsoft Server for updating and fixing errors, so it will be reinstalled.

First and foremost you need to disable MSOUC.EXE in Windows Firewall from both incoming and outgoing rules before deleting it:

You list the complete path in the firewall as follow:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\MSOUC.EXE

Not a good idea to list it as

%Program file****Microsoft Office\root\Office16\MSOUC.EXE

Now you may delete MSOUC.EXE.

At this point, Microsoft server won’t be able to reinstall it back; however I went one step further:

I deleted these two files which are used by MSOUC.EXE from this folder:

C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OFFICE\OTele

{CBCDE49F-946D-4BD9-96C5-8598BBBDBDDC} (0) - 4732 - msouc.exe - OTele.dat

&

{CBCDE49F-946D-4BD9-96C5-8598BBBDBDDC} (0) - 4732 - msouc.exe – OteleMediumCost

Now you can be certain; MSOUC.EXE won’t re-infect your PC again when you activate OneDrive, its Setup will pop-up but terminated in a split second by the firewall rules, it won’t be able to communicate with Microsoft server and reinstall the MSOU.EXE back.

I tested it 12 times in the past 24 hours and Microsoft server failed to reinstall MSOUC.EXE in my PC.

If anyone knows of a better solution, let us know!

P.S. This last step is not required and I don’t recommend it, I deleted every entry in the registry pointing to MSOUC.EXE except the four belonging to Firewall New Rules, those stay put.

Because if it is running it is using resources!!!!  It uses memory, CPU, and network bandwidth by continuously checking your OneDrive  Cloud drive.  Since I don't have any files in OneDrive, nor plan on putting any there, my computer doesn't need to be continuously checking to see if I uploaded any files to it from another computer.

There is no OfficeSyncProcess in the registry. Nothing in MSConfig with office in it. Any other ideas? Is there an actual solution for Office 2016 on windows 10?

It does seem in task manager I can kill

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\MSOSYNC.EXE

And it goes away.

Are we really saying the only way to disable this is to delete this file?

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

The Office 2016 Upload Center can be completely disabled from the Registry. You may follow the steps as suggested in the following Microsoft Communities thread:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2013\_release-office\_install/how-could-i-remove-microsoft-office-upload-center/330bd62a-5194-4bb0-8ac1-8f912a6d40bb

Note: The suggestions provided in the above article are for Office 2013, however, the same suggestions would apply for Office 2016 version.

Disclaimer: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, follow these steps to back up the registry:

You may refer to the following Microsoft Resource article which talks about backing up Registry Keys in Windows.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

Hope the above information helps.

Thank you.