You Can’t Get Rid Of It, You Can Only Hide It: Microsoft Imposes Controversial Windows Backup On Users - Gadget Tendency
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Like it or not, the Windows Backup app installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is here to stay, with Microsoft calling it a "system component" that can't be

You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users::Like it or not, the Windows Backup app installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is here to stay, with Microsoft calling it a “system component” that can’t be

  • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
    363·
    1 year ago

    Use local accounts only and do not login to a Microsoft account.

    Edit: In my situation, I used an MS account during a reinstall and disabled backups and logged out quickly after. There are methods to still do an offline install, from what I understand.

    Disabling backup is annoying, but not hard.

      • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        Yes. When installing and it asks for your email address just use no@thankyou.com then type anything in for the password. It will fail then you can enter a local account.

      • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Yes. I had to do that on my latest reinstall. I had to create a local account after the install and log out of my MS account. It really tried to force backups, which is super annoying.

          • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            I quickly tried, but I gave up as I just needed the install done. It didn’t occur to me to pull the network cable as that may have worked. If I remember what I was reading at the time correctly, it will take a bit for the option to show to do an offline install if you don’t have a network connection. (I could be completely wrong on that! It’s been a couple of months already.)

          • Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            You can get the Windows 11 ISO and mount/image a drive with it using Rufus which will let you disable telemetry and build a local account into the image IIRC

            Hell you can even make a “mobile” windows install and have windows on an external drive with Rufus

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      You also can’t use a work or school account, according to Microsoft:

      Important: You must use a personal Microsoft account with Windows Backup. Work or school Microsoft accounts won’t work.

      There is also no way to use the backup app with local storage, like an external hard drive; you can ONLY back up to OneDrive with this.

      EDITED to clarify: for now, you can still back up to another drive, but it’s a different process and the “advanced settings” needed to do so are buried several layers deep.