If you click the OneDrive storage item, PC Settings will open to the OneDrive, File Storage view, letting you manage your storage.Īnd the Settings item provides a Settings dialog (much) like the one from Windows 7: here, you can configure OneDrive to make all of your files available offline, or make all of them online-only. Now, when you click the icon, a new pop-up dialog appears, displaying OneDrive sync status and providing links to force a sync, pause syncing, and access OneDrive in File Explorer.Īnd when you right-click the icon, the menu that appears has many more options, in addition to the ones listed above: Go to the OneDrive website, OneDrive storage, Settings, and Help. And if you right-clicked the icon, you'd get a small menu with just two choices: Open OneDrive in File Explorer and View Sync Problems (which would be grayed out if there were no problems).Īfter applying the update-which most people will experience whenever the Patch Tuesday updates are installed and the PC reboots-OneDrive is a bit different.

If you clicked the OneDrive icon in the system tray, a File Explorer window would open (for some reason). To understand what I mean, consider how OneDrive worked before the update. But in comparing this update to a pre-update version, it's pretty clear that this is a most welcome change that makes the desktop experience a bit more like it was in Windows 7. This may not seem like a big deal, as the changes appear to be somewhat subtle. Key among them, the OneDrive desktop application now provides more information and additional functionality.

Hidden among the Patch Tuesday security updates this week was an interesting update for OneDrive in Windows 8.1 which includes both fixes and new features.

Windows 8.1 onedrive sync settings