How can I remove or stop the Microsoft Office 2010 Upload Center service from running?

The Upload Center is used whenever you save documents to SkyDrive and SharePoint. It manages uploading docs and synchronizing changes to them. If you never save/edit/share documents on SkyDrive or SharePoint then you won’t use this feature and can disable it.

To disable the Office 2010 Upload Center you can run msconfig, click “Startup” and remove the check next to “Microsoft Office 2010” that references MSOSYNC.EXE”.

Note that if you try to upload/save anything to SkyDrive or SharePoint the Upload Center will start and may add an entry to start with your computer. If that happens you will need to remove it again using msconfig.

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