How do I disable Keychain on my mac?

How do I disable Keychain on my iMac? It's become a burden.

Open system prefs and select iCloud.
Untick Keychain, it will ask for your Apple ID. Input that.
This should switch it off. If you want to reset it and then not enable it. Retick Keychain, it will ask for your Apple ID. Input it. It will then ask for your Security code. At this point, click reset Keychain, follow the prompts through, deleting from Mac or not as per your preference. Once you reach the point where it asks you to set up a new code, cancel out of this. Job done.
Keychain will remain off until you want to start it up again. Any details other than Credit Card or web passwords will remain in your Utilities Keychain, depending on whether your deleted them from your Mac or not. They will be listed under the header Local and not iCloud within the Keychain app in your Utilities folder.

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It seems you have encountered some problems when using SkyDrive on Mac.
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http://skydrive.com and remove your device on the left side of the page. Then follow the following steps:
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2. Click your username in the left panel
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4. Move SkyDrive to your trash
You can find the files that have been duplicated from SkyDrive storage in the SkyDrive folder in your home directory. Please follow the below steps:
1. Shutdown the SkyDrive Application.
2. Open Finder
3. Click on your username in the left panel
4. Delete your SkyDrive folder
Refer to this thread:http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/forum/sdoptions-sdother/how-to-uninstall-skydirve-client-on-mac-there-is/0d45b7d6-6062-49a8-a884-b146a4c824cc
Please note, we support Outlook on PC in this forum, if you have SkyDrive problems or need further support, we'd better post the question to the SkyDrive Forum to get more specific support:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive
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