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Crunch time- Win10, Win11, FS9, and you.

Good advice. (y)

With Win11 and especially One Drive (Win10 as well?) Microsoft is making a big (annoying) push for you to store your stuff on their Cloud.

I my case, I have plenty of private storage kicking around the apartment. I also install main drives that have plenty of room for the files I use.
I don't want One Drive, I don't need One Drive, and I don't trust the Cloud in general. Let me give you an example, I live in the great Mid-West prairie. Sometimes we get some pretty severe weather, sometimes bad enough to shut down my web connection. With no web, there's a lot of stuff I can't do so I'll bust out some kind of FS9 project to work on. :wiggle: If my project files are remote, I may as well open a book. :oops:

If you're in same boat, what's the best way to avoid One Drive? In the good old days, what was installed could easily be un-installed. Just run the un-installer in Task Manager then delete the files. With Win11, especially, as I understand it its practically impossible to dump One Drive. You can try to un-install but it will just come back with your next update. I found some advice that works, so far.

Leave One Drive alone BUT right-click your One Drive icon and TURN IT OFF. :p
That's it. So far, M$ isn't bugging me about setting up a One Drive account or sending me payment options so I can lease some free space.
Will this strategy continue to work? I don't know but for now its doing fine. :indecisiveness:
 
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I just have to come in here...
There actually are quite a few of us that find OneDrive very useful & I cannot understand where this 'hate' :redfire: for OneDrive comes from.

I have 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage & use it to store my sim library. It is also the default location for Office 365 files.
I also use DropBox & GoogleDrive for various other features, & my file browser sees the cloud storages as drives. X:\ is my GoogleDrive, Y:\ is Dropbox & Z:\ OneDrive.
I'm using a laptop with only 3x USB's - 1 for my mouse dongle, 2nd for a Portable drive (my D:\ drive) and a 4 port USB hub in the 3rd USB port. Those 4 USB's are used for my BlueTooth dongle, mouse charging cable, joystick & the 4th port to power my RGB mouse pad.

To each his own, I suppose, & I've also started to use 'Terabox' that also gives 1TB of cloud storage.

As I have said, dunno why the hate for OneDrive or Microsoft bashing! :a1089:
 
Sbob said:
Good advice. (y)

With Win11 and especially One Drive (Win10 as well?) Microsoft is making a big (annoying) push for you to store your stuff on their Cloud.:indecisiveness:
Click to expand...

Not just Microsoft either! I use Symantec / Norton for AV and a week or so ago I started getting notifications that Norton had backed up files for me in their cloud. I hadn't requested or authorized this service and had no advance notice of it. I had to go to Symantec's site and inquire how to disable it and clear out what it had already put up there.

I have a MS OS and Norton AV bit that doesn't mean I trust them to hold copies of all my files. I's more that I feel stuck with Windows because a switch would mean the loss of so much of my software, and because from what I've seen of it I don't like Apple any more than I like MS. AS for Symantec, I've used Norton for decades and never had a virus or other malware so I trust it for that.

What I don't trust about either company is how they both constantly promote their latest products and with MS updating would mean the loss of a lot of my software. With Symantec there's always the possibility that what stars out as a free service could later become costly. Anyway, I don't need the service and it annoys me greatly that they would presume to just start copying my stuff to their cloud without notice or permission.

I feel compelled to stick with both companies for what they do best but they both really aggravate me with the way they are always pushing their new products.
 
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