- Windows 11 users see a positive change, but also less well
- The good news is that the “second chance out of the box” was considerably rationalized
- The bad news is that there is a new NAG contextual window in the Start menu which pushes you to eliminate a OneDrive subscription
Microsoft has stored discomfort with Windows 11, but unfortunately seems to have introduced another irritation – and more vexing in its place.
Let’s start with the good news here, that Neowin has reported and implies the “second experience outside the box” (scoobe to make it short). It is a fancy speech for a NAG screen that appears after starting on the desktop, trying to be configured Windows 11 elements with which you did not care about the configuration of your PC originally.
The configuration of your Windows PC is known as the experience out of the box (Oobe), because in you, you have just taken out the device from the box and activate it – so this panel pushes you essentially on you, in the hope that you could use the Windows backup application, for example (or switch to Edge).
Now, as there are currently, this harassment scoobe is a multi-pastry business that you need to click (there are three panels, if my memory is properly).
However, in a recent version of preview in the Windows 11 development chain (build 26200.5722), Microsoft has changed the scoobe, so it’s just a single panel, and you can reject it with one click.
At least now, when it appears – and if you leave games of the unfinished Windows 11 configuration, this will continue to appear every few months – it will be more painless.
It is therefore something (vaguely) positive – but unfortunately, Microsoft seems to have introduced a new NAG in its place.
Windows noticed the new, more boring, more annoying addition that has arrived in the Windows 11 start -up menu and consists of a contextual window that indicates: “Recommended action – Save your PC”.
Below, there is a bit to save your files, your settings and so on in the cloud, and if you click on the prompt “Continue” that Microsoft provides, you will be taken to Windows backup. (And this backup application is facilitated by OneDrive – and with the low quantity of free space included with Microsoft’s cloud storage service, you will almost certainly need a subscription, which is the node of this prompt in terms of sale something).
Analysis: Scoobe Dooby Ne
So, although this addition of start -up menu is a warning at first glance, it’s really just a way to try to get a subscription with Microsoft. And although this may be a useful prompt to remind some people they need to save their files, the problem is that others may well have already paid a backup via another application (or have gone elsewhere in the cloud) – but if they have not used Microsoft’s official channel, then they will be harassed to do so.
As Windows DERNIT clearly shows, these prompts will probably continue to appear periodically – like scoobe – and there is no way to deactivate them. Indeed, Microsoft reported this Windows backup NAG as a “required” prompt, it cannot be avoided, unlike the scoobe, which you can really turn off. (You can do this in Settings> System> Notifications> Additional settings).
In my book, there should not be compulsory nags, and if you want to use Windows 11 without being harassed by a single pop-up in this direction, you should be able to check a box for this purpose. Interestingly, Windows the latter observes that with a Windows 11 test installation using an EU region, this alert did not appear in the start menu – so this change may not occur in Europe because of its data regulations (which prove to be a bargain in some respects).
