Remove Sync Center icon
- by Edward Brey
I accidentally marked a shared folder as "Available Offline" in Windows Explorer on Windows 8.1 computer. This seems to have "woken up" the Sync Center and caused the Sync Center icon to be displayed in the system notification area. Even though I've undid that by marking the folder as not available offline, and furthermore have reset CSC and disabled Offline Files, the Sync Center icon still appears in the overflow section of the system notification area.
How do I remove the Sync Center icon and preferably disable the process that is displaying it?
Debugging info: The registry shows that stuff is enabled, even though the Sync Center and Offline Files dialog don't indicate that anything is active.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SyncMgr\HandlerInstances\{750FDF10-2A26-11D1-A3EA-080036587F03}
SyncTime REG_BINARY F6DDC46CBB76CF01
Connected REG_DWORD 0x1
Enabled REG_DWORD 0x0
Active REG_DWORD 0x1
NotifiedOnFirstActivation REG_DWORD 0x0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SyncMgr\HandlerInstances\{750FDF10-2A26-11D1-A3EA-080036587F03}\SyncItems
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SyncMgr\HandlerInstances\{750FDF10-2A26-11D1-A3EA-080036587F03}\SyncItems\{CBA95344-4284-48CB-8083-3BDE1FDB29A7}
SyncTime REG_BINARY F6DDC46CBB76CF01
Connected REG_DWORD 0x1
Enabled REG_DWORD 0x1