content: there are methods of disabling it. youve got to go through ... fark ... cant remember off the top of my head but you can change services from manual to auto to disabled and set triggers for various things. in the past i had one that each time windows update fired off (WAUA i think?), it would actually trigger a script which shut down and disabled ... 3 services i think it was ... took ownership of the folder and deleted the lot. the problem happens when youve got something that wont run without a driver update then things get all fucky youve got to disable certain downloads before you allow the tasks. yes we complain about the telemetry but pretty much all the major sticking points can be removed or disabled, onedrive included.