I've been all over it, even checked online. None of the online solutions work because the options they say to kill it/uninstall it don't exist. There is no microsoft skydrive listed to uninstall. There is no microsoft silvercloud{?} to uninstall. gpedit.msc tells me the address doesn't exist.

These may have worked at one time but I'm of the opinion the last couple of updates to W8.1 was to stop people from killing or uninstalling skydrive. It's easier to remove malware, spyware, and trojens.