I want to eventually use OneDrive on a particular folder, I just want to fully control what is being uploaded to the cloud and what is not. I do not have it installed on this machine. How can I get my Desktop, Documents folder, etc to be not stored on OneDrive? A lot of tutorials on this assume the desktop version is installed. It seems like this whole 'local account' is just smoke and mirrors. Additionally, when I go into C:/Users/ I noticed that the user folder there is still the same folder that existed before I created the 'local account' that I was currently logged into. So even though I do not have OneDrive installed it seems to be tightly integrated into Windows 11. The problem I noticed is that my Desktop, Documents, and a couple other folders are still in a OneDrive folder (C:/Users/username/OneDrive/Desktop). I had created a local user account hoping that by doing that and removing my microsoft account it would revert back to a normal file structure where the Desktop and other folders were all located physically on my computer. I signed out of it, made sure OneDrive was not installed (it was not showing up in add/remove programs). I activated it with my microsoft account with the intent of removing it after. It looks like they got rid of the option recently. I could not find any other way to get through the activation.

It forced me to use a microsoft account to setup windows 11.

I bought a 2021 LG Gram which came with Windows 11 Home.

Disable one drive