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.
That is awesome. They should also make it flash and induce epileptic episodes. Punish normies.
Users: Do you realize what Windows is subjecting us to? MS board of directors: Windows? We don’t even use PCs
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?
For better or worse, I have a school account linked to my OneDrive (makes it easy to hop on a school computer to work on stuff), so at least I probably won’t see this.
no one cares.
Who pissed in your cereal?
Now? This pop-up has been there for more than a year.
Yep. Really fucks up my no m/k living room steam machine.
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.
Stop fucking bugging me OS! Junkmail, spam, junk phone calls, junk sms, notification abuse on smartphone apps. It really adds the hell up and this kind of shit coming from something I paid to install is infuriating.
Let’s improve your experience
Sit back, relax, we’re taking the wheel here to once again shove our subscription products down your esophagus. Would you be so inclined as to now use New Outlook, OneDrive, Microsoft Office, Telemetry (just kidding, we make it mandatory and give you the illusion of choice), Edge and our sponsors Candy Crush? We thought you would, so we’ve set these as your default apps. For instance, we have decided for you that Edge was what you actually needed instead of LibreWolf, which cane from an unknown source.
Thanks again, we will come again in next month’s update!
Don’t forget Skype for Business doing the weird half-sign on thing and then starting Teams which nags you to switch to Teams (New).
I Cant even laugh at this. Too soon.
would you like to SUPERSIZE your OS subscription?
Man they’re really making the case for me to keep using Windows 10
Until security updates are stopped in October next year…
I hope Steam OS 3 will be officially supported by then, it’ll be a nice advertising campaign from Micro
You don’t need valve to game on Linux, they just help a whole lot.
Last time I booted up Win 10 to game I got a full screen ad for Windows 11. When hitting the button to exit, the button disappeared and the whole machine froze and eventually crashed. (Although that crash might have been somewhat hardware related)
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)
better yet, the States can help regulate them!
Did someone say tax cut for the rich!
Or better yet consumers could stop supporting shitty companies and use alternatives instead, seeing as we’re listing fantasies…
The alternatives… That once they shows a bit of growth and promise gets bought up by a bigger and greedier company, that then gets bought up by one of the big corpos and carefully discontinued in favor of their own product.
If my Linux distro gets bought by a big greedy company I’ll switch to a different distro.
Linux itself isn’t a company. And cant be bought up even if Linux Foundation is taken over. And its not like you support Linux Foundation when you download one of the free distros.
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.
I’ve never had that happen on windows 10, and I have three win 10 machines here that get daily use.
I got them as soon as windows 11 was available
There must be some settings that can be toggled to turn them off.
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).
In Canada, no VPN and I just turn off everything I don’t want windows doing as best I can
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.
Enterprise edition? Or do you already have OneDrive set up?
My Win10 starting doing this a few years ago, probably every month or so.
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.
Does Pro not do this type of shit? I can’t really remember when I saw onedrive after my initial deactivation and uninstall spree on my machine…
It must. I’m using 11pro and never see any of these ads
10 pro did way more obnoxious anti-consumer shit than I could tolerate. It still regularly ignored and reverted settings.
Since 11 has become even more hostile I’m guessing pro still sucks hard.
Now? I think I’ve had this show up long ago.
