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.
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You say that as if it was easy, and as if it doesn’t come back again a few Windows updates down the road.
I uninstalled onedrive with Geek Uninstaller on several of company PCs and none of it had come back.
It was easy for me, and has never come back. Then again, a lot of the fear mongering I see about windows has never been my experience with it.