Microsoft quietly changed how folder backup works in the OneDrive app on Windows 11. Now, the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
You can uninstall it and it will still retain some weird connection with your folders where stuff still saves to a one-drive folder which becomes impossible to delete or use normally, unless you re-install one-drive and do a bunch of stuff in the one-drive program-specific settings, and then re-un-install it, in which case it might stick.
Admittedly, I haven’t messed with add/remove programs for a bit, but last time I did, it seems like they locked all the Microsoft brand programs down, no?
Ugh, I wish I had the time and dedication to find the registry keys and disable them and to keep up as the keys change with each update.
Just uninstall onedrive?
You can uninstall it and it will still retain some weird connection with your folders where stuff still saves to a one-drive folder which becomes impossible to delete or use normally, unless you re-install one-drive and do a bunch of stuff in the one-drive program-specific settings, and then re-un-install it, in which case it might stick.
How do?
Let me introduce to the terrible, wonderful world of regedit…
Seriously, though, move all your shit out of onedrive folders, go to add or remove programs, and uninstall that shit.
Admittedly, I haven’t messed with add/remove programs for a bit, but last time I did, it seems like they locked all the Microsoft brand programs down, no?
Ugh, I wish I had the time and dedication to find the registry keys and disable them and to keep up as the keys change with each update.
The only ones i’m aware of that are strictly locked down, at least in 10, are edge and edge related stuff. I’ve killed almost everything else.
You can give revo uninstaller a shot to see if it can clean out some of the trash.