The welcome walkthrough relies on a syncStatus context key to hide or display the suggestion to sync your data, and unfortunately, without the user data sync services, the context key remains undefined, while the condition is syncStatus != uninitialized, so the suggestion is displayed. The only way to hide it is ironically to register the user data sync service override without configuring any server
A few minor fixes
The user data sync service override is not usable for the moment at it relies on a closed-source server hosted behing
https://vscode-sync.trafficmanager.net/
. But it may be useful in the future (see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/settings-sync#_can-i-use-a-different-backend-or-service-for-settings-sync)The welcome walkthrough relies on a
syncStatus
context key to hide or display the suggestion to sync your data, and unfortunately, without the user data sync services, the context key remains undefined, while the condition issyncStatus != uninitialized
, so the suggestion is displayed. The only way to hide it is ironically to register the user data sync service override without configuring any server