Onedrive is horrible, invasive and impossible

The Microsoft invasion just never ends. A couple of mornings ago I awoke to find an unfamiliar icon on my new computer. Turns out MS had installed some Xbox **** without my knowledge or consent, as usual. I checked my two old computers, and sure enough it was there also, so I had to waste time uninstalling it. This is particularly creepy because a year or so ago I found a charge on the card I used for the MS account for $14.99, which would recur monthly, for an Xbox subscription that I never asked for. I had it removed and had to cancel the card. MS never gave an explanation for this.

I have never used Xbox in my life.

After recently opening my laptop while working on a rush job, an asinine "exciting announcement" from MS popped up and FORCED ME TO LOG IN TO MSN. I could not do anything until I did so. Their interference is increasingly outrageous.

I just renewed my MS subscription and changed from family to personal because nobody else wants this ****. What an ordeal that was. I found an MS page with instructions on how to make this change which did not work at all. I had to let it expire and then change it, although there are dire warnings that your data can be lost if you let it expire. As soon as the charge went through, I canceled automatic billing and removed the card from the account.

What a sad way to have to do things.

aDD ME TO THE LIST OF PEOPLE WHO FIND ONE DRIVE A COMPLETE DISASTER.

One of the several Microsoft techs I've dealt with said only about 11 percent of MS users have Windows 11. Even the MS techs don't know what's going on and have given me lots of bad advice. So far disabling onedrive from startup has helped, but it's too convoluted for me to do anything further with it myself. I've spent so many hours on this it makes me physically sick and will pray that the next visit from the tech will get rid of onedrive and its nonsense.

This is why I don't do clouds. Honestly, I checked out with Vista back in the day when my PC was no longer my own. I recently bought a Dell, and will be going down to get an external hard drive, backing up all my files and deep-registry tooth-and-nail manually pulling this thing out by the roots. Nasty thing. This is what I warned of with hotmail back in the day and 'putting everything and the kitchen sink in one place' mentality with microsoft back then. That and youtube did the same thing, which I object/ed to. The 'put all your eggs in one basket' approach hasn't appealed to me since I learned how to keep as many backups of my stuff in different places as possible. I bought this damn Dell and barely have anything on it except some very important files. I also didn't have time to set this computer up myself, and again, found out my friend telling me that everything requires your personal email now, and your home address and your social security number. Kidding. Anyway, long story short, recently sat down on my PC, only to open hotmail and find it yarping at me to free up space. Commence me manually freeing up space in my email. I regularly use CCleaner to back up the registry, so I'll go get this sorted soon. But yeah, found out that micropenis has been unbeknownst to me storing files on its 'free' cloud, and it wasn't an email issue at all. To me email=/=my computer. Computer is my computer, email is my email. If I want it in my email, its in my email, if I want it in my computer, its on my HARD DRIVE. I accidentally deleted everything. I normally 'ctrl' delete everything anyway, so I was lucky that I could recover it all from recycling. But of course it tells me it doesn't have enough space to recover everything because there's not enough space in this stupid CLOUD I DON'T WANT, instead of putting it all back on my PC! You don't need my email, micropenis, or my home phone number or to helicopter parent me about my passwords, dear. I still understand what happened back in the day when playstation got hacked and how easy it was. Don't store my data, you cowards.

Anyway, I hope you all have fun with it, and good luck to you all. I would suggest two backup copies, some stored in an email account not linked to microsoft, an external hard drive, and if you've deleted everything out of your recycling bin (By the way, thanks for making recycling bins completely useless, Micro.), and give your computer a hard computer reset. Store everything on an external drive with a backup, make sure to tell click on all files 'do not upload to cloud', unsinc from cloud and do not upload anything, then delete and hard factory reset your computer. I believe we don't have to click 'yes' for onedrive. Other than that there's some interesting ways to disable it. Good luck. If you can't do this yourself, there's probably a million professionals that have needed to untangle people from onedrive. We're probably single handedly keeping them in business.