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Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As a reminder, you can always just uninstall OneDrive and call it a day.

Until Microsoft takes that option away as well....

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or just reinstalls it in the next update.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

They never reinstalled OneDrive after an update... yet

(I hate how I have to uninstall useless shit after updates)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I did that and it was a mess, with warnings about being unable to backup that I couldn't get rid of. I had to reinstall to try to turn off syncing, then remove again. But it's so integrated that my desktop is still under a OneDrive subfolder and it's still referenced in various places.

Is there a guide to completely removing this from Windows 11 cleanly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's ltsc an option for 11 like it was for 10?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No idea but, after a quick search to learn what this is, I'm not sure how it would help were it to be an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can disable so-called essential components and I believe it ships without almost any of the bloat. So essentially you could just take one drive out, or not have it in the first place. Or at least that's my hope

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's also not "just" if it's one of what feels like hundreds of steps now to make the OS somewhat usable.