How to completely (100%) remove OneDrive and any connection to it?

[Microsoft Windows]

My PC does not have OneDrive installed on it, anywhere, yet buried in my user profile there it is with all of my files, I hate it and I do not want my files in the cloud ever. The issue is a few weeks ago, I came across an issue with saving an Excel file and it defaulted to a OneDrive save folder. That got me to investigate where it is saving it; low and behold in my User folder I have a nested OneDrive folder that is now the default save location. I want everything locally saved and I can manually control what and where I back up my files but to my surprise I cannot move those files or remove

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