By RM
wednesday, november 19, 2025 at 6:08:00 p.m. est
Never understood this "cloud" business- it sounds like storing data in thin air-so I looked it up.
"'The cloud' on a computer refers to using the internet to access and manage data and software hosted on remote servers, instead of on your local device. This allows you to access your files, applications, and services from anywhere with an internet connection, as seen with services like google drive, iCloud, and netflix."
So your data is being stored somewhere outside of your own computer, with some other entity in control-that doesn't seem like a great idea! With an external hard drive (not expensive) you can store tons of stuff and have it easily accessible, and safe if the computer conks out.
Why a new machine would have a storage problem is unknown to me. It sounds like some unnecessary rigamarole or possibly a scam. Suggest getting a used machine from ebay- I've been using old HP laptops for ages. Suits my purposes well enough.
Regarding NUC (never heard of it!), it sez here:
"Barebones or Full Systems:
NUCs come in two main types: barebones kits, which require users to add RAM, storage, and an operating system, and pre-built systems that come with components like RAM and storage already installed." Maybe you got the one where you have to add storage to it! (I'm not great on tech stuff, though I've learned a lot by making mistakes!)
-RM
N.S.: Thanks, RM. I have used external drives forever, however, they are not secure. In february, 2021, this room had shorts in every socket, and my external drive, with 20 years of work, got wiped out. I was able to rescue old published work from VDARE and American Renaissance, but lost thousands of unpublished manuscripts, and hundreds of thousands of Web pages I'd saved. (I'd re-posted many published articles of mine to my blogs, or they'd have gone lost, as well.) Why not constantly detach my external drive? Because the connections get destroyed. I once had to buy a used connector, when that happened. There's no one sure thing in this biz.
This was apparently a barebones system. As for a "storage problem," even google said it could be a scam, but all I know is I can no longer play anything. I'll have to ask my chief of research, when he gets it. He bought it and set it up for me.
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"....this room had shorts in every socket..." Doesn't a surge protector prevent that from damaging your equipment? Sorry to hear that, that's nightmarish! The best thing is to make hard (printed) copies of important articles, though if you have thousands of pages of stuff, that's another kind of nightmare! I try to make paper copies of important items, but like yourself, am always falling behind! (Ink runs out fast too, and isn't cheap.) Windows crashing is my biggest problem- lost lots of stuff that way. Last time that happened, I found a way to access my stored files (videos, photos, music) and copy them without being able to open Windows- but tabs and bookmarked things are gone. Now I keep a notebook of important websites (like youtube and archive.org channels) so I can access them again on a new computer.
The Internet is useful, but ephemeral- nothing lasts like paper! (Or CDs, DVDs, etc.)
-RM
"Hello, Help Desk, this is Rajiv in Mumbai, no, no, script, where my script, here, yes. I mean Roger, this is Roger in Richmond, how may I assist you today?"
The cloud in this case is probably OneDrive and the OneDrive is one of the features (in a manner of speaking) of your "Microsoft Account", and Microsoft is getting very very insistent on tying every Windows user account to a Microsoft Account during installation process.
There's also a wonderful thing called a "local account" but Microsoft has been nailing shut all the traditional workarounds that permitted a local account to be created.
So assuming your Windows login is tied to a Microsoft account, what Microsoft account is it?
(1) An old familiar Microsoft Account (and OneDrive) that you used with your old machine.
(2) A new Microsoft Account you had to create at installation, or upon first use of the new machine.
(3) Some little minimal stub of a Microsoft Account that the seller stuffed on the new machine?
Whatever the Microsoft Account is, that Account owns a "OneDrive" cloud storage and that might be what's running out of space. Thus the questions about where did the Account come from.
ALSO - browser - are you using Microsoft Edge? If so, can you try another browser, even Chrome (because I detest Google even more than I detest Microsoft). It might be that Edge is being outrageously closely tied to OneDrive by default.
Another thingie you can look at (make changes only at your own thoughtful discretion): click the "Cloud" icon in the right bottom corner of your screen, it gives a popup. Click the gear in the top right corner, you get a menu. Click "Settings" in that menu, another popup (sigh!) click "Account" in the list on the left side, and you see "OneDrive" and a button to "Choose folders".
AND - what's being stored on the OneDrive? If it's everything, even Downloads, even web browser cache, that seems excessive to me and my old-fashioned views.
Rajiv Roger say bye-bye, please remember to do survey.
See also https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5280270/my-onedrive-personal-gave-me-the-message-you-cloud though I suspect you've already searched and searched.
After reading A.T.'s helpful hints,there's a line in a movie--"that oughta do it"--followed by an explosion--that came to mind for some reason.
--GRA
I never had to have a "Microsoft Account" to use a computer or the Internet, just like I don't need a "Google Account" to use Google (despite their constant annoying prompting). And I'm using plain old Firefox, dysfunctional in some ways but adequate, as my browser. Never sign up for any kind of "account" you don't need! If you get a used computer it comes with whatnot already installed anyway. Archive.org has a lot of old-type programs you can install, like older versions of Windows.
-RM
Years ago when I used Microsoft I often had crashes. Being disgusted with Bill Gates I vowed to never use a Microsoft product. Since I switched to Apple, no crashes, ever. I don't use the cloud at all--just save externally. I once worked at a company where the rule was to save all your work on two separate external places every night before leaving. For a while, concerned about security, I used two separate removable hard drives with the operating system on each drive. One drive was used with the internet while the other never had an internet connection. Someone in the tech industry had advised that nothing connected to the internet is secure--the only security is to have a system that is never connected.
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDMzhlefMs&list=RDqUDMzhlefMs&start_radio=1
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