Last Updated on December 26, 2022 by Mathew Diekhake
By default the Windows 10 operating system will begin syncing your settings if you’re signed in with a Microsoft account; however, you can also personalize the sync settings individually from the Settings app or turn it on or off completely as well.
If on the other hand you would prefer to enable or disable the sync settings rather than just turning it on or off, then you can do that two separate ways: either from the Local Group Policy Editor or the Registry Editor. Disabling Sync Your Settings means that you or others who use the same group policy will not be able to change the sync settings from the Settings application any longer.
Those who choose to enable or disable from the Group Policy can only do so in a compatible version of Windows whereas everyone can enable or disable sync your settings from the Registry.
The following tutorial demonstrates how to turn on and off the Sync settings for your Microsoft account when you’re using a version of the Windows 10 operating system.
How to Turn On/Off All Your Sync Settings from Settings App
Here’s how you can turn on and off all of the Sync your settings settings from the Settings application:
1. Open the Settings app and click on Accounts from the main Windows Settings menu.
2. From the Accounts menu, click on Sync your settings.
3. To Turn off All Your Sync Settings
a. Under the Sync your settings heading in the right side of the same window, toggle off Sync settings. (click to enlarge screenshot below)
4. To Turn on Your Sync Settings
Note: Having the Sync settings turned on is the way Windows has it by default.
a. Under the Sync your settings heading in the right side of the same window, toggle on Sync settings. (click to enlarge screenshot below)
How to Turn on/off Your Individual Sync Settings in Settings App
Here’s how you can turn on and off the individual settings for Sync your settings in the Settings application:
1. Open the Settings app and click on Accounts from the main Windows Settings menu.
2. From the Accounts menu, click on Sync your settings.
3. Turn on Sync settings by following step 4 above if Sync settings isn’t turned on on your computer already.
4. From the right side of the window under Individual sync settings, use each of the toggles to turn on or off the sync settings as you see fit. (click to enlarge screenshot below)
You can now close the Settings app and continue using your computer if you like.
That’s all.
March 23, 2019 @ 14:17
Google Chrome sync settings are what makes it useful to have a Google account.
Microsoft Windows sync settings are what makes it useful to have a Microsoft account.
Both of these features have helped me a lot with not having to spend anywhere near as much time downloading apps and settings up computers after I reset operating systems and browsers. If I were still using Windows XP I would be still doing those jobs for the next 10 years.
March 23, 2019 @ 14:04
I was chatting to a guy the other day on another tech blog and he was going on about how he still uses Windows XP and that there’s no point to update your operating system to something newer from Windows because there is no proof that these newer versions are better. He made some points about how there is no evidence that the security is better and so on. You can’t just assume it’s better because they say they have added some new features. He claims he still has never had malware on his computer.
I think he’s wrong because even on Windows 10 I run malware scans all the time and pick up malware on my computer so I don’t know what he is scanning his computer with. But in addition to all those arguments, Windows 10 is obviously far better than older Windows because you get to sync your accounts. Who the hell wants to use Windows without a Microsoft account? It’s far superior to the old Windows.
March 23, 2019 @ 14:13
I was as big of a Windows XP fan as much as anybody, but you definitely shouldn’t be using it still because it’s no longer supported at all. That means that no Microsoft developers are continuing to work on it. So if you weren’t getting malware on it before you probably will be soon. And the compatibility with other programs just in general will be severely lacking.