In addition to monthly reminders to use Microsoft Edge and Microsoft 365, Windows 11 now recommends using OneDrive. A recent Windows Update triggers a full-screen pop-up for OneDrive, which looks like the OOBE (out-of-the-box experience) that typically pops up when you install Windows 11 for the first time.
First spotted by Windows Latest, Windows 11 has a new pop-up titled “Let’s back up your files,” which appears automatically when you start your PC.
It’s worth noting that OneDrive’s free storage is limited to 5GB, so you need to buy storage to use the Windows Backup feature. It isn’t practically possible to backup your complete PC to OneDrive in the long run unless you have empty folders.
Also, if you do manage to skip the OneDrive pop-up when booting Windows, you’ll see another notification that warns your PC that it is not fully backed up with an alert icon.
It isn’t possible to pause or remove these alerts and full-screen pop-ups in Windows 11 if you live outside the European Union.
Friendly reminder that Linux is free and respects your ownership of your computer.
Windows free since XP
This is like someone in a UFO sub reminding people about Roswell
Think you’re preaching to the choir on that one
Could’ve mentioned Arch Linux specifically though.
People never mention Arch Linux around these parts …
Yeah, we know.
Switched to Linux earlier this year when I saw the end of Windows 10 support coming. I haven’t looked back since.
I don’t miss that “not for now” or “maybe later” being the only option beside “yes” in prompts.
You may think Linux users are annoying but to be fair Microsoft is frankly begging for the “btw you should use linux” comments with every new windows update
One of the first things I did was remove OneDrive when I installed W11.
I have yet to see any of this new malarky, and I am not in the EU.
From a admin command prompt:
winget uninstall Microsoft.OneDriveIf you have linked an account to OneDrive, I’d advise you unlink it first.
the EU should put all these companies through the fucking WRINGER. better yet, the States can help regulate them! imagine all the power massive tech corpos would lose if the EU and the US worked together to bring them down. then the EU’s regulations would also apply basically anywhere else, since tech companies watch the US market the closest (and they can’t afford to lose this market unless they… idk, move to China)
as if they can even move to China, its market is already dominated by domestic replacements for everything
damn, you’re right. India then, maybe? i don’t know how reliable the Indian market is, because i don’t know much about India (Bharat? when are they going through with the name change)
Man they’re really making the case for me to keep using Windows 10
Now? This pop-up has been there for more than a year.
Yep. Really fucks up my no m/k living room steam machine.
The 5GB free space of my OneDrive is filled with game saves in the documents folder. You can’t exclude directories there from being backed up. Good job.
Windows is just a loss leader to sell your data and other products at the point.
And shit like this is why I just installed Linux Mint on my mother’s PC. No issues so far.
But what about her PC though?
Time to be broken up for real this time.
Your resistence only makes my customisation harder!
I just buy a grey market pro key and it seems to stop all of these issues. I can’t say I’ve seen 1/4 of the things news articles are complaining about windows doing.
Are you in the states? Uninstall one drive and come back to me on this one.
Uninstall OneDrive, Never had a popup. Not that fucking hard jesus christ.
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