Microsoft forced reinstall of Windows 10. Where's my Onenotes files? Case number 143 155 8954

Andrew, thanks for your comments and advice. 

1) I checked the new (re-installation of) Windows 10 and a switched showed "Backup" was "ON". However, when I looked deeper into the application I saw another "switch" saying backup was "OFF". My fault for trusting Microsoft.

2) Prior to losing all applications and having to do the rest to original software & configuration, Onedrive seemed to bog my computer down and I often waited while it took hours to upload my work.  I hated Onedrive...and I never gave permission for it to install. One day I started getting a daily message saying "Onedrive is full".   Microsoft "support" emailed a list of instructions but it never resolved my problem. I explained I didn't want Onedrive on my computer but that wasn't addressed.

3) Now that Windows is reinstalled I am getting the "Onedrive is full" message again. But when I look at the files there are only three folders, each with just couple-three short documents in it. I'd like to use Onedrive, but so far it has dominated my computer and made my quality of use very poor. As are all the popups.  I did install a program t remove malware and am learning most popups are coming from using Microsoft Edge.

4)  Now, a rogue program keeps trying to force an install every few hours. It's called "Scheduflow (duoserve.com). I blocked it from being installed when Windows reinstalled.  but it won't give up and I see it listed on my list of applications.  Microsoft is bad about installing software without permission and without explaining it.  When Onedrive & Cloud were on the scene all I ever got from Microsoft was emails telling me to use them. 

5) As for luck of the draw with Microsoft support. Well, I disagree, it's not that way. If you are not paying for a service you are funneled to the cheap help in Indonesia or another country.  Over there an enterprising person hires staff and those "technicians read from a script. They may speak a little broken English but they do not understand the nuances of American English, and certainly not the technical terms used with the applications they are "troubleshooting" Get hem off the written script and it dows downhill fast. On the other hand, if you are a subscriber and payng  Microsoft, you get an American, int he USa and they are qite proficient. Otherwise, the customer is "punished" with low-grade support to induce them to spend money. Bill Gates has 93 billion dollars and the company gets it from the sweat of cheap foreign help and over-priced software.

6) Since I cannot trust a Microsoft program when it says 'Backup is on" then Iike so many others, I am forced to do the work myself and inspect al that Microsoft claims and presents and make sure I have backup independent of anything Microsoft provides. Ditto for malware protection. The only time I've EVER had a computer virus or malware was while relying on "Defender". Each time I switched to a fee-based anti0virus program,  the invaders couldn't get in. Microsoft is simply too big and too ahead of the low to serve its customers.

7) Even this "community" of support is peculiar. Your reply came as an email.  The comment I am writing now is shown as a "message" but I don't know if the correspondence between us is private or will appear on the community message board where I placed my original comment.  Microsoft explains only what they must explain to sell a product. The world's population must spend its time learning the Microsoft way.

8) Microsoft has so little respect for its customer base we must endure a commercial in order to see a "news' video clip. Any hustler can pay Microsoft a fee and place an advertisement in the MSN.com "news slider and divert eyeballs to watch their promotions for pills or other nonsense. Often the commercial is longer than the news video. Gone are the days when a homeowner could slam the door int he face of an unwanted aluminum siding salesman. Today, our computers are constantly bombarded with attacks by unlimited sales organization trying to get money from us. This is all tolerated by the younger generations so there's no incentive for the billionaires to change a thing..unless, of course, an invasion of privacy complaint festers. Billionaires, like politicians, react when their power and fortunes are threatened, otherwise, status-quo is the game.

Don't get me wrong, it didn't start with the mass marketing of personal computers in the 1980's. Or even with cable television, or "free" TV, as they call it today. In the days of radio infancy, the owners learned quickly they could sell more grain seed to farmers, at planting time, if the traveling salesman simply talked about his seed on the local radio show.  The salesman could sell more seed to more farmers in a few minutes of radio time than in a week of traveling door to door. Radio had a purpose!  And because of radio's new experience selling to farmers, they became known as "broadcasters" just like the farmers broadcasting seed, at planting time, over his acreage.

I recall when cable television was first imagined. I asked, "why would anyone pay for television when it's already free?" The answer was always the same, "Because by paying a cable TV fee they didn't have to show commercials."  Cable was sold that way and folks signed up. Today, as we all see, cable has plenty of commercials and charges a fee too! A similar argument is used with Facebook and other "social media" profit centers. The billionaires who argue, "without the commercials it couldn't be "free." are taking a lesson form how Americans were duped into paying for free television.  Well, I'm telling you, social media is anything but "free". Our society is paying a heavy price so a few techy billionaires can rule the world. And isn't it ironic hustlers are now advertising antennas for "free" TV to avoid cable bills, as though free TV is a secret.

Please don't mistake me for a neophyte computer user who hasn't learned the ropes yet. I was programming before most of you were born.  I've watched as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs infested the world with their way. We are more easily triggered by emotions these days and we live in a distracted and detached world of instant gratification and copycat mass killings. The contrast from earlier days is not so noticeable unless you've lived through it.  I remember a time before Americans were so isolated from each other. Isn't it ironic they named this form of isolation "social networking?"  It's so odd that we've gone from a nation of talkers to a nation of thumb typist. For over a hundred years we've had a perfectly good voice transmission capability only to replace it with two-finger texting. I'm a touch typist, those gadgets are not designed for me. They are dumbed down for the masses, to ensure the greatest market saturation possible.  Was Steve Jobs warning us when he announced, "I create useless devices and then convince people they need them."? If Alexander Graham Bell could visit today he'd retreat and say, "Watson, never mind."