Windows 10: How to force Windows to store desktop shortcuts to C: instead of to OneDrive?

Coincidentally I discovered that desktop shortcuts are stored on OneDrive\Desktop.When installing Windows 11 on my laptop, the setup 'mirrors/syncs' the Windows 10 desktop shortcuts from OneDrive onto the laptop. The desktop applications are not available on my laptop. So I accidentally deleted them and they were consequently gone from Windows 10 desktop PC.Whilst restoring them I noticed that they were automatically stored within a OneDrive \ Desktop folder.Half of the desktop shortcuts are stored on C: somewhere, the other half on OneDrive. I want them all be stored on C:How to get this d

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Shortcut keys only work when Desktop folder is child of OneDrive folder

I'm running insider preview build 19635.mn_release.200522-1435

I have a shortcut of Windows Terminal on my desktop. This shortcut was made by:

• Open run (Win + R) and run shell:AppsFolder.
• Right click on Windows Terminal and choose Create shortcut.

My shortcut key is set to Ctrl + Alt + T, mimicking Ubuntu's implementation of the GNOME desktop environment. I was messing around with Windows Terminal trying to access my Desktop folder, when I discovered "C:/Users/blah/Desktop" didn't exist. Rather, Desktop
was located in "C:/Users/blah/OneDrive". Moving Desktop to the Users/blah folder resulted in my shortcut being unresponsive. It seems that I can only Ctrl + Alt + T for Windows Terminal when the Desktop is a child of OneDrive.

Also, OneDrive is uninstalled. I don't particularly understand why Desktop gets moved to OneDrive upon Windows installation, it would make more sense to have OneDrive install without any setup. It's nothing but a hinderance if used for personal usage anyway.

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

This is Windows 10 Pro... Enterprise is an entirely different deal and I'm sure I won't have problems that route, but I'm not forking over more $ to dipshit developers. The only thing I can think of is un-linking my Office 365 accounts within Office, but that defeats the purpose of accessing the files ONLINE and managing them from there. I have two alumni accounts, not a single problem in Windows 7/8 until M$shit devs decided to integrate Onedrive. I've deleted, renamed, set read-only to "msosync.exe," ... but windows continues to add it again and again, and NOW I just noticed it's now linking to groove.exe, instead of onedrive. Sooo fn annoying!



Onedrive on Windows 10 is not an 'app' it is integrated. Plus I don't fool around with the Windows Store thoughtless developer child bullshit. Windows Store ought to be completely removed from the Windows platform all together. Also I do not intend to completely remove Onedrive, it defeats the purpose... the purpose is to REMOVE it from Windows Explorer navigation and startup.

 

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I would suggest you to try the following steps and check if that helps.

• Go to the folder C:\Windows\System32 and sort by file type.
• Look for the screensaver file type (.scr).
• Find the file scrnsave.scr(you can choose any of the screensavers).
• Right click and select send to>desktop (create shortcut). The shortcut on my attachment, but when i click on it my screen goes off and on and nothing else.