DISABLE the Settings Header Banner

To disable the Settings Header Banner

1. Download the proper Mach2 file here: Releases . riverar/mach2 . GitHub

2. Open the zip file and place: mach2.exe and msdia140.dll on your desktop.

3. Open a command prompt as Admin.

4. Type:

cd C:\Users\<user name>\Desktop

[where "C" is the drive letter containing Windows]


5. To completely "disable" the Settings Header Banner, type:

mach2 disable 18299130

6. To disable only the OneDrive icon, type:

mach2 disable 19638738

7. To disable only the Rewards icon, type:

mach2 disable 19638787

8. To "enable" the Settings Header Banner, type:

mach2 enable 18299130

[Tested on Windows 10 x64 Home 19042.662]







Virustotal results...

Mach2 Arm64 VirusTotal

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Is this the same as above? => How to manage (add/delete) the New Header on Settings Page

Paul Black said:

Is this the same as above? => How to manage (add/delete) the New Header on Settings Page

Similar. The major difference being this one allows you to disable the entire header OR just parts of it.
And Mach2 came out about a week after Vive did.

Ghot said:

Similar. The major difference being this one allows you to disable the entire header OR just parts of it.
And Mach2 came out about a week after Vive did.

Ghot said:

Similar. The major difference being this one allows you to disable the entire header OR just parts of it.
And Mach2 came out about a week after Vive did.

I made note that Raphael fixed his Mach 2 tool after ViveTool was published. Thanks.

How to manage (add/delete) the New Header on Settings Page

Farvatten said:

A similar behavior I've been seeing is the result of not running OneDrive at startup where the status will remain as 'Manage'.



Then after the first startup of OneDrive, I'll get this 'Back up files' warning.




Like the loss of my chosen User login picture, I see these eyesore nags as Microsoft's petty punishment for not using their online account, or their products the way they want me to. Unfortunately new ones keep appearing frequently. As a consequence, I almost never go to the main settings page anymore and instead pin the necessary options to my start menu like 'Update' and 'System'.

At least they got rid of that originally obnoxious yellow 'yelling !' status icon from a year ago.

I managed to fix that annoying OneDrive thing. Not sure exactly what happened, but I uninstalled OneDrive and then re-installed it and now it doesn't even have that back up option any more. Why are things so all over the place? lol.

PS: The machine that didn't nag me about backing up had OneDrive running and actually had the version that included backing up so I don't know... I replaced that too though.

PS2: Managed to get rid of the Web Browsing thing too. Had to use vivetool and I just removed all group 4 entries until I was left with 3 group 0 entries that cannot be removed. Now I only get OneDrive and Windows Update icons.

Last update: I found out what happened with the missing OneDrive menu. My VPN provider blocks it at the DNS level as tracking. Once I disabled it and restarted OneDrive, the setting was back, but the Settings banner has stopped nagging me to backup for good hehe.