Microsoft now needs you to elucidate precisely why you’re making an attempt to shut its OneDrive for Home windows app earlier than it permits you to take action. Neowin has spotted that the newest replace to OneDrive now consists of an annoying dialog field that asks you to pick the rationale why you’re closing the app each single time you try to shut OneDrive from the taskbar.
Closing OneDrive is already buried away and never a easy activity, with Microsoft hiding it underneath a “pause syncing” choice if you right-click on OneDrive within the taskbar. However now, the stop choice is grayed out till you choose a purpose for quitting OneDrive from a drop-down field. Listed below are the choices:
You’ll want to pick one to shut OneDrive, however Microsoft hasn’t included a “go away and let me shut the rattling utility” choice, sadly.
Microsoft has been pushing OneDrive in Home windows for years, with it taking on the Paperwork and Footage libraries in Home windows 11 by default to sync recordsdata to Microsoft’s cloud-powered storage. There are additionally quite a lot of prompts all through Home windows in case you haven’t arrange OneDrive, together with one which seems if you change a Home windows desktop wallpaper.
This new conduct follows years of Microsoft’s demanding Edge prompts that seem in case you dare to obtain Chrome or change your default browser. Final month, Microsoft even thirstily started injecting a poll into the obtain web page of Chrome asking why individuals have been downloading an alternate browser. Now, Microsoft needs to know why you’re closing OneDrive.
What’s subsequent? Hopefully, Microsoft received’t begin injecting a ballot at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.
If you wish to keep away from this newest OneDrive nonsense, then be happy to open Job Supervisor, seek for Microsoft OneDrive, and finish that activity the old-school manner.
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