Remove "Start back up" option in file explorer

Well yes, it's Windows that added this during an update.

But Windows, Windows Explorer, and OneDrive are all Microsoft enterprises, and that's who profits from the cloud storage one has to buy when they find their OneDrive allotment is full.

Eh?

Yes, all of those products are owned by Microsoft. I don't have any problem with that at all. It's the same with Apple and iCloud, or Google and their stuff.

The issue is that File Explorer itself does not need to show this prompt. That's the only issue here.

Well yes, it's Windows that added this during an update.

But Windows, Windows Explorer, and OneDrive are all Microsoft enterprises, and that's who profits from the cloud storage one has to buy when they find their OneDrive allotment is full.

Eh?

Yes, all of those products are owned by Microsoft. I don't have any problem with that at all. It's the same with Apple and iCloud, or Google and their stuff.

The issue is that File Explorer itself does not need to show this prompt. That's the only issue here.

Yes, but it's good to understand the why. This is probably not a bug, but an intentional change of behavior on Microsoft's part.

And I have no problem with MS making business decisions—I simply want to push back when their design changes or reduces the usefulness / productivity / user-friendliness of something else. This is one of many things they've added in the past couple of years that breaks core existing functionality**.

Chris

** = their decision to change the software testing paradigm from qualified testers to a) their developers and b) their users (ship it and let the users test it) is not going well, in my opinion

Btw button disappears if you sign out of Onedrive. 

Signing out of OneDrive is a) not a solution, especially for those of us that still use it (though not for backup), and b) probably not something that Microsoft would want users to do (since they want us to use OneDrive for backup).

So I would think in both cases, they would want this issue resolved with a fix, not a work-around.

Chris

FYI: In respect to the comment that this is not a OneDrive issue, I've been discovering a host of other Windows apps/components that are trying to get users to use OneDrive for backup. See the following image for a prompt in Excel to schedule a backup to OneDrive.

This thread is about the button in "Start Backup" Windows Explorer and how it's positioned in any annoying locations, one that sometimes interrupts the functionality of the address bar in Windows Explorer.

But it's clear to me from indications elsewhere in windows that this is a marketing move in the area of cloud storage. At least in Excel, I can click the close 'x' (not shown) at the far right of the yellow bar. I don't know if there's a way to tell Excel to stop showing me the backup option at all times, but a quick search on the web shows that this is just as much a mystery as the Windows Explorer button.

We should all be unhappy with Microsoft's foisting this on us without the ability to disable it.

Chris