How to disable the OneDrive back up nagging from the account's badge notifications?

Since late May or early June of this year (I don't have an exact date, but the earliest I wrote this incident down was probably in very early June), I have noticed that my account icon in the Start Menu often has a notification badge. As I open it, it reminds me that "I should do a back up of my PC in One Drive", and I immediately close it, rejecting it. And the few times it has appeared ever since, they have been weekly, which... it's all fine... up until a couple of days ago, where the reminder has been appearing at least, once per day (three times in the past four days, more or less corresponding to each session I work with, which makes me arrive to this conclusion) which is now annoying me more, because I could still pass it up if it was at least, weekly... but I already have the same "Make a PC back up in OneDrive!" reminder in the notification center as a 30-days reminder, , the nagging defeating its purpose.

This is all in a local account, by the way. I don't want to connect a Microsoft Account (hence, OneDrive) as I prefer my files to remain local (and I also have my means to back up my things), and it's very obvious to me what Microsoft wants from this, though.

I have been reading that it is so simple to toggle it off (Settings -> Personalization -> Start -> Others (Show notifications related to your account), but does it really work like that? I see that the Notifications thing there says something like "When this is deactivated, necessary notifications would keep showing" (my Windows 11 Home Single Language 24H2 is in Spanish, so, I'm sorry this might not be the accurate translation in English), what exactly does "necessary notifications" even mean, or what even counts as "necessary"?

fleurdemer said:

This is all in a local account.......

Windows 11 Home Single Language 24H2

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First, to answer your questions.

To turn off onedrive notifications, go to settings>system>notifications>onedrive>toggle off

“Necessary account notifications” are the ones Microsoft considers essential for the functioning or security of your Windows account — not marketing
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My observation :
You say you use a local account but since you have Windows HOME I suspect the system was originally set up using a MS account. If that be true, you did not take all the necessary steps to rid yourself of Onedrive. There's more to it than simply switching to a local account.

Go to this thread POST #2 which gives the proper sequence of events that should have been taken to deal with Onedrive correctly. Had these steps been followed, you should not be receiving notifications regarding Onedrive. Those instructions are all-in-one to cover different scenarios we receive regarding Onedrive.

Also, why are you still on 24h2?

To turn off onedrive notifications, go to settings>system>notifications>onedrive>toggle off

“Necessary account notifications” are the ones Microsoft considers essential for the functioning or security of your Windows account — not marketing

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Okay, so. For the first one, it would mean that maybe, I wouldn't be bothered by the monthly/weekly reminder in the notification center if I toggle it off. And I suppose that the second - would I still be getting annoyed for the badge notification in regards to the PC back up within a Microsoft Account, because MS might think it is a "required notification", or...? I don't fully get it.

Hmm. I could have conflated OneDrive = Microsoft Account. The notification badge doesn't say anything about OneDrive itself (now that the notification appeared again)- it's about "signing to a Microsoft Account" instead, and I know OneDrive basically comes with the whole package of logging with a MS Account. I might have been confused because I was exhausted (and annoyed) as well when I wrote the original post, (as English is not my first language, and I wanted to make my issue clear), and I wrote it down like that just for easy reference for myself (unfortunately, I don't think my post translated well my actual issue). I'm sorry for that.

I thank you for the guide you provide, but unfortunately I'm a little not too tech-savvy to focus on this right now to actually get rid off OneDrive, so maybe in the future?

Also, why are you still on 24h2?

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No reason in particular, I've been procrastinating to install 25H2, that's all.