Windows 11 often auto-enables a OneDrive feature called Folder Backup without telling users that it is doing so.

Over the last two years, with so many people working from home (often from personal devices), I have been seeing more and more organizations advising their users to configure their Windows PCs to back ...

Imagine your documents, photos, videos, and other files are gone forever by sudden system crashes or storage device failures. Quite scary, right? However, to prevent this from happening, Microsoft has ...

Microsoft automatically turns on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. A recent, undocumented ...

OneDrive Backup (often called Folder Backup or Known Folder Move) automatically syncs the contents of your Windows Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders to your OneDrive cloud storage. This ...

Microsoft has made a questionable change in Windows 11 that takes away your freedom of choice for OneDrive backups. Without prior notice or explanation, Microsoft now force activates the automatic ...

On Windows, OneDrive is built right into the operating system. Even if you don’t turn it on, it will pop up occasionally, asking you to “back up your files to the cloud.” What that really means, of ...