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

  • OfficerBribe@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Does it automatically back things up, even if you don’t have a Microsoft account or turn it on?

    It’s optional as most things in Windows. Also if you do not use MS account where would backup be stored, how would you restore it? :)

    Here are more reputable sources:

    Have not used it myself, but I think most if not all of this was already available through Settings so it’s nothing new. LazyAdmin article seems to state the same.

    • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      So OP’s article is clickbait nonsense. Got it.

      Maybe I should write an article titled, “Windows Has a ‘Registry’ of All the Details of Your System and They Won’t Let You Delete It,” then watch people go crazy complaining about the decades old Windows Registry.

      (I guess you can delete the registry… but not if you want a functional system)

      • OfficerBribe@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        No, meant reputable, because 1st one is MS article and those 2 others are blogs that I have read in the past and have not had much issues with their content (also I skimmed through them)