Stop Office BACKUP THIS DOCUMENT prompt

It's a real shame when software developed by a "trusted" company like Microsoft starts to resemble spammy malware.

Yes, a script (batch file or powershell) to update the registry entry is still working to suppress the "nag" banner.

To use the batch file from task scheduler, use entries similar to this for the task:

Action: Start a program

Program/script: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

Add arguments: /c "[Drive_and_Path_to_Your_Batch_File]\filename.bat"

 ( do not include the two brackets, [], just the drive and path to your batch file )

Also be sure to select the "Run with highest privileges" option for the task.

This is just venting.I apologise in advance for the potty mouth, but Iam so effin frustrated with Microsoft Office.
For one, I have MANY interlinked excel files.
These all get corrupted the moment it is loaded to onedrive, so I keep them on my Hard drive. It has not changed in 8 years since i started using Microsoft Clouds (I attempt it often)
It always effs up my formulas (huge huge huge quantities of formulas ) so I know not to bother.
I find 1D useful and use it for general file sharing and working across devices, but in many instances it just effs up all my work.
I have a small business with only a few staff and do not need an entire IT department. I know my way around most of Windows, however I dont plan on playing around registries and Powershell and what-nots, because it shouldnt be necessary - the effing MS Office should allow you to choose what you want to do with your files, and not force their systems on you.
For instance, all my staff PCs run Outlook with POP3 accounts, located on their hard drives.
I have threatened my staff all with the wrath of a thousand demons if one of them select the stupid backup pop-up in word and excel, but inevitably it happens, and then it moves ALL their files including outlook.pst to a onedrive folder, which then results in their outlook emails getting corrupted or just simply stop working.
WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WITH LOADSHEDDING AND DONT ALWAYS HAVE INTERNET, SO ONEDRIVE EFFFFFFS UP EVERYTHING.
I've had to fix 3 of these PCs so far, and it takes many hours to restore everything to its original place, resetting email passwords and deleting duplicates. This 1D folder is like a fkn demon that just wont go away, and the path also magically looks like MyComputer/Documents and does not show up as mycomputer/onedrive/Documents

It also moves their desktop files and it is ANNOYING. On certain staff pcs i've completely uninstalled 1D. Guess what? When windows updates, 1D misteriously resurfaces, and asks to backup files once again.
FFS microsoft!!! let me save what i need to in 1D, and let me use my hard drive for what i want to, and dont try and manipulate me into using 1D. I run backups on my HDD files to a separate system. Your forcing this 1d thing on me is going to be the death of me.
or at least give me the option to select "NEVER EVER GIVE ME POP-UPS EVER" when you run an update.

I couldn't agree with you more! Like you, I don't want files on my hard drive uploaded to OneDrive. ALL of my computer battles have been with OneDrive since I began using it.

Yesterday I was in the process of copying a batch of movies from an external hard drive to OneDrive and it was one disaster after another. Finally, I decided to stop the process, deleted the folders on OneDrive where the movies were being uploaded to. OneDrive indicated that everything was synced and AOK afterwards. Today, I see the folders are back and the movies are there. The external hard drive was no longer connected!!! I did not request a restore. So how does that happen????

This is just venting.I apologise in advance for the potty mouth, but Iam so effin frustrated with Microsoft Office.
For one, I have MANY interlinked excel files.
These all get corrupted the moment it is loaded to onedrive, so I keep them on my Hard drive. It has not changed in 8 years since i started using Microsoft Clouds (I attempt it often)
It always effs up my formulas (huge huge huge quantities of formulas ) so I know not to bother.
I find 1D useful and use it for general file sharing and working across devices, but in many instances it just effs up all my work.
I have a small business with only a few staff and do not need an entire IT department. I know my way around most of Windows, however I dont plan on playing around registries and Powershell and what-nots, because it shouldnt be necessary - the effing MS Office should allow you to choose what you want to do with your files, and not force their systems on you.
For instance, all my staff PCs run Outlook with POP3 accounts, located on their hard drives.
I have threatened my staff all with the wrath of a thousand demons if one of them select the stupid backup pop-up in word and excel, but inevitably it happens, and then it moves ALL their files including outlook.pst to a onedrive folder, which then results in their outlook emails getting corrupted or just simply stop working.
WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WITH LOADSHEDDING AND DONT ALWAYS HAVE INTERNET, SO ONEDRIVE EFFFFFFS UP EVERYTHING.
I've had to fix 3 of these PCs so far, and it takes many hours to restore everything to its original place, resetting email passwords and deleting duplicates. This 1D folder is like a fkn demon that just wont go away, and the path also magically looks like MyComputer/Documents and does not show up as mycomputer/onedrive/Documents

It also moves their desktop files and it is ANNOYING. On certain staff pcs i've completely uninstalled 1D. Guess what? When windows updates, 1D misteriously resurfaces, and asks to backup files once again.
FFS microsoft!!! let me save what i need to in 1D, and let me use my hard drive for what i want to, and dont try and manipulate me into using 1D. I run backups on my HDD files to a separate system. Your forcing this 1d thing on me is going to be the death of me.
or at least give me the option to select "NEVER EVER GIVE ME POP-UPS EVER" when you run an update.

There are only two solutions that have been shown to be reliable.

1. Uninstall OneDrive from your system (assuming you don't need that storage or can use other, free, alteratives.
2. Periodically run the Registry patch that resets the time-of-last-nag (well-documented earlier in this discussion).

MSoft seems not to be listening, despite the large number of annoyed users.