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Windows 11 now shows a full-screen pop-up to use OneDrive and protect your PC (www.windowslatest.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] the_doktor 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Look, this is horrible and everything, but how are people pretending this is new? Occasional updates since Windows 10 have been showing these annoying pre-boot configuration screens even if you've skipped them before including ones wanting you to use OneDrive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I've never had that happen on windows 10, and I have three win 10 machines here that get daily use.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I got them as soon as windows 11 was available

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There must be some settings that can be toggled to turn them off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

If you spend the time and effort and find the half dozen different places to turn off Microsoft ads it probably stops them.

You shouldn't have to do that and they probably made it even more of a hassle in Windows 11, because they don't care that you own the computer, they really don't like you having control over it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Enterprise edition? Or do you already have OneDrive set up?

My Win10 starting doing this a few years ago, probably every month or so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good for you, so you're from the EU or any other country that forces MS to stop this bullshit (or at least your installations believe you are).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In Canada, no VPN and I just turn off everything I don't want windows doing as best I can