• brie@beehaw.org
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    As a reminder, you can always just uninstall OneDrive and call it a day.

    Until Microsoft takes that option away as well…

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        They never reinstalled OneDrive after an update… yet

        (I hate how I have to uninstall useless shit after updates)

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      I did that and it was a mess, with warnings about being unable to backup that I couldn’t get rid of. I had to reinstall to try to turn off syncing, then remove again. But it’s so integrated that my desktop is still under a OneDrive subfolder and it’s still referenced in various places.

      Is there a guide to completely removing this from Windows 11 cleanly?

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          No idea but, after a quick search to learn what this is, I’m not sure how it would help were it to be an option.

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            You can disable so-called essential components and I believe it ships without almost any of the bloat. So essentially you could just take one drive out, or not have it in the first place. Or at least that’s my hope

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      Yeah, it’s also not “just” if it’s one of what feels like hundreds of steps now to make the OS somewhat usable.