Microsoft Windows 11 now shows a full-screen pop-up to use OneDrive and protect your PC

In addition to month-to-month reminders to make use of Microsoft Edge and Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows 11 now recommends using OneDrive. A latest Microsoft Windows Update triggers a full-screen pop-up for OneDrive, which seems just like the OOBE (out-of-the-box expertise) that usually pops up once you set up Microsoft Windows 11 for the primary time.

First noticed by Microsoft Windows Latest, Microsoft Windows 11 has a latest pop-up titled “Let’s back up your files,” which seems mechanically once you begin your PC.

As proven within the above screenshot, the full-screen pop-up upsells OneDrive by highlighting Microsoft Windows 11’s built-in function to “back up your desktop, documents and pictures folder in the cloud so you have peace of mind knowing they’re protected, even if something happens to this PC”.

Microsoft cites 4 benefits of turning on OneDrive in Microsoft Windows 11:

1. Protect a lifetime of reminiscences: Your information and photos will keep secured with OneDrive cloud storage.
2. Easily collaborate with family and friends: Share information and seamlessly edit collectively so that you’re all on the identical web page.
3. All your data, when and the place you want it: Your paperwork, desktop, and footage folders will back as much as OneDrive, so that they’re out there in every single place.
4. File modifications mechanically updates: Files mechanically sync within the background, so that you all the time have the most recent model in your PC.

The pop-up gives two choices: “Next” and “Skip for now”.

While “Next” opens the Microsoft Windows Backup app and instantly begins syncing your information to OneDrive towards your 5GB free storage, “Skip for now” enables you to go to the desktop.

As the title suggests, the “Skip for now” is short-term, because the pop-up may reappear within the next Microsoft Windows Update or after just a few weeks.

But are the OneDrive syncing and Microsoft Windows Backup good in Microsoft Windows 11? In our checks, Microsoft Windows Latest noticed that the function works easily. It does the fundamental job and syncs every part to the cloud storage.

This additionally lets you instantly restore your outdated device once you buy a latest device or clear set up Microsoft Windows.

In different phrases, the Microsoft Windows Backup function is certainly good. It’s additionally value noting that OneDrive’s free storage is proscribed to 5GB, so you have to purchase storage to make use of the Microsoft Windows Backup function. It isn’t virtually attainable to backup your full PC to OneDrive in the long term until you’ve empty folders.

Also, in case you do handle to skip the OneDrive pop-up when booting Microsoft Windows, you’ll see one other notification that warns your PC that it’s not absolutely backed up with an alert icon.

It isn’t attainable to pause or take away these alerts and full-screen pop-ups in Microsoft Windows 11 in case you reside outdoors the European Union.

Microsoft was not out there when Microsoft Windows Latest reached out for a remark.