Windows 11 now shows a full-screen pop-up to use OneDrive and protect your PC

2 years ago by lemme in to c/technology

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.

PlasticExistence 127 points 2 years ago

Friendly reminder that Linux is free and respects your ownership of your computer.

Windows free since XP

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paraphrand 53 points 2 years ago

This is like someone in a UFO sub reminding people about Roswell

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henfredemars 34 points 2 years ago

It’s been so nice. My wife and I have really appreciated the steady, stable consistency of our home desktop doing exactly what we want it to do without distractions, all the time.

It’s a simple pleasure, like owning a TV that’s not smart, or visiting a website with no ads. It just does what it’s supposed to do. I want more technology like this in my life.

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Aceticon 11 points 2 years ago

Funnilly enough getting Linux properly back in my home again (used if for a NAS with a laptop ages ago and been "playing" with it since the 90s) was making my TV smart the right way using a Mini-PC with Lubunto and Kodi to make a TV Media Player (which also does other usefull stuff like be my home's NAS and Torrent Server over Always On VPN) and replace my ISP's set up box which had become enshittified.

It's a great way to bring back true ownership and control of electronics in this day and age of enshittification without having to sacrifice anything.

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Ilovethebomb 17 points 2 years ago

Yeah, we know.

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JustARegularNerd 14 points 2 years ago

Think you're preaching to the choir on that one

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Aceticon 11 points 2 years ago

Could've mentioned Arch Linux specifically though.

People never mention Arch Linux around these parts ...

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DaddleDew 74 points 2 years ago

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.

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communism 59 points 2 years ago

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

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riquisimo 22 points 2 years ago

The more users switch to linux, the more windows will need to cater to those users to get them to come back.

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CileTheSane 33 points 2 years ago

As someone who recently made the switch, and felt the immediate relief when I started using an OS that wasn't actively fighting me, I can't foresee what Windows could possibly do to convince me to go back. If my distro enshittifies I'll just switch to a different distro. Fuck the corpos.

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WhyFlip 11 points 2 years ago

Fuck the corpos!!!

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Llewellyn 0 points 2 years ago

Spot a child.

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riquisimo 6 points 2 years ago

Also recently made the switch, and I agree.

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InternetUser2012 10 points 2 years ago

Honestly, if anyone goes Linux now, they aren't going back.

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the_doktor 57 points 2 years ago

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.

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systemglitch 5 points 2 years ago

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

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BruceTwarzen 12 points 2 years ago

I got them as soon as windows 11 was available

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systemglitch 3 points 2 years ago

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

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cestvrai 7 points 2 years 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.

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CileTheSane 7 points 2 years 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.

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weststadtgesicht 5 points 2 years ago

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).

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systemglitch 2 points 2 years ago

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

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PerogiBoi 49 points 2 years ago

The language in the fucking pop up. “Skip for now”, implying that at some nebulous future date it won’t be an option.

Eat my whole ass, Bill Microsoft.

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WhyFlip 9 points 2 years ago

It's called "dark process" and is utilized by so many companies these days.

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Redex68 9 points 2 years ago

Think you mean dark patterns.

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PerogiBoi 5 points 2 years ago

My first job straight out of uni was a “Marketing Experience Designer” which translated into looking at the company’s product offering and writing papers on where and what dark patterns can be used and to whom.

There’s a special place in hell for people like me 😟 was broke and needed the job.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 4 points 2 years ago

I worked as a telemarketer in college to pay rent. I know exactly how you feel.

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laurelraven 45 points 2 years ago

At no point has Microsoft gotten me to regret my decision to install Mint

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PrefersAwkward 12 points 2 years ago

Sad spyware and adware noises

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Llewellyn -2 points 2 years ago

I came back to the Windows to have a comfortable cloud storage experience (background files and folders synchronization) and to be able to play any game there is.

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Imgonnatrythis 37 points 2 years ago

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.

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foxymulder 23 points 2 years ago

would you like to SUPERSIZE your OS subscription?

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JustARegularNerd 16 points 2 years ago

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!

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Imgonnatrythis 5 points 2 years ago

I Cant even laugh at this. Too soon.

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Avatar_of_Self 3 points 2 years ago

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).

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BrownianMotion 36 points 2 years ago

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.OneDrive

If you have linked an account to OneDrive, I'd advise you unlink it first.

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XipArchivedXenia 27 points 2 years ago

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)

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Sabata11792 9 points 2 years ago

better yet, the States can help regulate them!

Did someone say tax cut for the rich!

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prettybunnys 6 points 2 years ago

Only if we can ease up on some environmental regulations and gut an unrelated federal agency too!

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superminerJG 6 points 2 years ago

as if they can even move to China, its market is already dominated by domestic replacements for everything

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XipArchivedXenia 3 points 2 years ago

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)

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mrecondo 3 points 2 years ago

A colleague of mine (we work government, so Microsoft all the way) spent a month in India learning their ways and I couldn't be more envious. All open source and cloud agnostic.

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CileTheSane 4 points 2 years ago

Or better yet consumers could stop supporting shitty companies and use alternatives instead, seeing as we're listing fantasies...

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emptyother 1 point 2 years ago

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.

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CileTheSane 4 points 2 years ago

If my Linux distro gets bought by a big greedy company I'll switch to a different distro.

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emptyother 2 points 2 years ago

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.

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Tregetour 25 points 2 years ago

Users: Do you realize what Windows is subjecting us to? MS board of directors: Windows? We don't even use PCs

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SaharaMaleikuhm 20 points 2 years ago

On Mint you just get this nice popup to help a beginner with important stuff like drivers and updates. It has a checkbox to make it not pop up again and it never does. Unbelievable!

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KingThrillgore 20 points 2 years ago

Man they're really making the case for me to keep using Windows 10

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billybong 16 points 2 years ago

Until security updates are stopped in October next year...

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Alphane_Moon 11 points 2 years ago

I am willing to bet they won't stop security updates for W10 next year.

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Gutek8134 5 points 2 years ago

I hope Steam OS 3 will be officially supported by then, it'll be a nice advertising campaign from Micro

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aniki 5 points 2 years ago

You don't need valve to game on Linux, they just help a whole lot.

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linearchaos 3 points 2 years ago

We don't need valve to game on Linux but a lot of people still do.

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cheddar 19 points 2 years ago

Now? This pop-up has been there for more than a year.

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SynopsisTantilize 5 points 2 years ago

Yep. Really fucks up my no m/k living room steam machine.

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wicked 19 points 2 years ago

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.

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DannyBoy 17 points 2 years ago

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)

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hopesdead 15 points 2 years ago

Didn’t the EU force Microsoft to show third-party alternatives to Internet Explorer like a decade ago? I feel like this is the same thing.

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randomguy546 8 points 2 years ago

They don't show this in the eu or at least I didn't get any and in the eu they also let you uninstall edge

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hopesdead 4 points 2 years ago

That explains why. throws hands up https://ec.europa.eu/...

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disgrunty 13 points 2 years ago

And shit like this is why I just installed Linux Mint on my mother's PC. No issues so far.

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Llewellyn 2 points 2 years ago

But what about her PC though?

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AWittyUsername 12 points 2 years ago

Windows is just a loss leader to sell your data and other products at the point.

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drasglaf 8 points 2 years ago

Now? I think I've had this show up long ago.

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MiltownClowns 8 points 2 years ago

Time to be broken up for real this time.

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Carol2852 7 points 2 years ago

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...

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hightrix 5 points 2 years ago

It must. I’m using 11pro and never see any of these ads

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conciselyverbose 2 points 2 years ago

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.

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AProfessional 1 point 2 years ago

Pro doesn’t reduce ad amounts IME.

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Agent641 7 points 2 years ago

Your resistence only makes my customisation harder!

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PhAzE 4 points 2 years ago

I skip this and fully uninstall one drive immediately after getting control of the desktop.

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Gestrid 0 points 2 years ago

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.

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aniki -10 points 2 years ago

no one cares.

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KairuByte 3 points 2 years ago

Who pissed in your cereal?

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LunchMoneyThief 0 points 2 years ago

That is awesome. They should also make it flash and induce epileptic episodes. Punish normies.

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Passerby6497 -3 points 2 years ago

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.

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SynopsisTantilize 3 points 2 years ago

Are you in the states? Uninstall one drive and come back to me on this one.

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account_93 -12 points 2 years ago

Uninstall OneDrive, Never had a popup. Not that fucking hard jesus christ.

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archchan 0 points 2 years ago

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