...but it still needs you to log in. If you log out from OneDrive it does nothing. It's a separate login from the Windows login, too, if you've used one of those to install Windows.

I genuinely haven't used Win10 in enough time I don't recall if it gave you more notifications to re-enable it, but after refusing to log in and taking OneDrive out of my startup tasks I don't think it's come up again on any of my Windows devices.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

Can confirm. I have never had W10P bug me about OneDrive. I don't have, nor will I ever have an account for microshit. Local user only. All files stored locally and have never been promoted to do otherwise.

[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't even have a login for it, let alone try to use it. What it has done, however, has made itself the standard "My Documents" folder in the user profile. I am not using it for anything, I have that all on a totally separate drive and mostly everything correctly points to the new destination I have for My Documents, My Games, My Videos, etc.

However, I can not get the Quick Links on the left side of an explorer window to stick to the new destination. It keeps reverting back to the OneDrive folder within the user folder so using them just sends me to an empty folder.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

See, then you fell for a dark pattern, because I refused to use it on first boot and there is no One Drive folder in this brand new computer I'm currently using at all. It isn't the standard My Documents folder, it doesn't have a folder at all and the application icon isn't on my system tray.

That's why I was asking about the Win10 install being different, but I've installed Win 11 twice this year, once in a computer for personal use that currently doesn't have any One Drive folder at all and one for work where One Drive is logged in to a work account (along with Office 365) and it only syncs that work folder, not the personal folders, photos and whatnot. You can absolutely have a Windows (11, anyway) install with no One Drive synced to anything at all, or even running.

It sucks that Windwos designs its install process as a dark pattern-ladden attempt to get you to sign up for crap, but you can reject all of it. Maybe I do it enough I have the habit and I underestimate how hard it is to choose what you actually want. I guess that's the equivalent to having a working Windows 98 key memorized in the early 2000s.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The login is now unskippable and part of the OS setup.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No, you're thinking about the Microsoft Account login (which still has workarounds but whatever). OneDrive needs to have its own separate login, in case you, like me, have a separate account for work or need to have multiple One Drive accounts or if you have paid One Drive, 365 and whatnot.

So you can absolutely log in to Windows with a MS account and log in to One Drive with your work account... or not log in at all and just not have it running, which is what I do.

I have installed Win11 on a new computer build this year. I promise I'm looking at my system tray and there is zero One Drive icons on it. No One Drive folder in my Windows file explorer, either.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Well I've never purposely logged into One Drive but my "Documents" and "Pictures" folders' paths have been inside of an One Drive folder every time since at least win10.

The last time I installed win11 one of the very first things I did was move all the default libraries out of one drive.