Ive been running a Click-to-Run version of Office 2013 on my 64-bit Windows 7 SP1 system for about a year now.  Im in the habit of looking frequently in my Windows 7 notification area (or system tray) at least once every time I log on.  A few days ago, I was surprised to discover the Microsoft Office Upload Center icon in my notification area.

Having used Office 2013 for about a year now, why might the Office Upload Center icon have suddenly appeared in my notification area?  Did I inadvertently start something?

Other information that might help identify the cause:

• My Windows 7 system has three user IDs for logging on, but the Office Upload Center appeared in the notification area of only one of the user IDs, not in the notification areas of the other two user IDs.
• I dont use OneDrive (SkyDrive) or SharePoint, and I had never even heard of the Office Upload Center before this incident.
• I did look in the Startup tab of msconfig, but there was no entry to start the Office Upload Center.

Thankfully, the icon was easy to remove from the notification area.  I went into Office Upload Center Settings and unticked/unchecked the appropriate box.  The icon hasnt appeared again and, according to the list of processes in Task Manager, no occurrences of MSOSYNC.EXE, CSISYNCCLIENT.EXE, OSPPSVC.EXE or MSOUC.EXE are running.

• Edited by Tiberius_Claudius Friday, January 30, 2015 5:18 PM

Hi,

The Microsoft Office Upload Center enables you to monitor files that youre uploading to a server. In particular, the Microsoft Office Upload Center uses a feature known as Efficient File Transfer (EFT) to help reduce bandwidth usage between SharePoint and Office applications.

As for the question how it appeared suddenly, I don't know the answer either. But I suggest you just leave it alone, if you need to store your documents on your personal OneDrive one day, the Upload Center helps you. If the icon annoys you, you can go to settings and untick "Display icon in notification area".

Regards,

Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support