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

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] XipArchivedXenia 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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.