Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

73 CHAPTER 5 | Connecting to the Internet and cloud services To set up OneDrive for the first time on a PC running Windows 10, type the email address associated with your Microsoft account in the dialog box shown in Figure 5-6 and then click Sign In. Figure 5-6: Every OneDrive account is associated with a Microsoft account. On Windows 10, this account doesn’t need to be the same as the one with which you sign in, although that certainly helps. After you enter your password, the setup wizard shows you a dialog box like the one shown in Figure 5-7, which displays the default folder for the local copies of your synced files. You can click Next to accept that setting or click Change Location to choose a different folder. Figure 5-7: By default, OneDrive synchronizes files between your Windows 10 PC and the cloud, keeping the local copies in a folder within your user profile. This step of the initial setup is your only chance to change that location. By default, this initial setup wizard creates a folder called OneDrive in your user profile and then syncs your cloud files to this folder. For most PCs that have just a single drive for storage, this is the ideal location. However, if you want those files stored elsewhere—if you have a desktop PC with a relatively