The latest version of Windows started to aggressively advertise OneDrive’s backup feature in File Explorer, where it would prominently show a “Start backup” button as part of the navigation bar:
Clicking on this button, even accidentally, will trigger an annoying dialog, that, with it’s preselected options, might start a backup of data to Microsoft’s cloud that you did not really intend:
This notification can be turned off by a hidden setting inside File Explorer’s settings. Open Explorer’s settings and from there select the “View” tab, find the “Show sync provider notifications” setting and un-check it.
After logging out and logging in again, the notification is gone. To be honest, I don’t know which other notifications I am now missing, but so far I have not noticed anything important.
Darn Microsoft, this method no longer works. Microsoft really wants you to “Start backup”. The thing that irks me the most is that it isn’t a “backup”, it’s actually moving your files to OneDrive.