Windows 10: My Windows desktop was f*cked up: public Desktop was showing instead of user desktop

I will explain what I did in Windows 11 English. I just wanted to have the screenshot taken with the shortcut Win+Shift+S going inmy Desktop folder instead of one of my two OneDrive Folder: OneDrive/Pictures/Screenshots.1. Right-click on OneDrive/Pictures/Screenshots -> properties->location2. I click to Move folder, I click on my Desktop folder out of OneDrive. It ask if I want to move the existing files in the new one, I click no. It also says that I can't restore default after, ???3. After, I don't want that the screenshots goes directly in Desktop finally. So I create a folder in Fren

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Public Desktop showing instead of user desktop when logged in (Windows 10)

Upon login to Windows 10 using my username (the only one on the machine), it has now started bringing up the 'public' desktop instead of my 'user' desktop. I have no idea how to get my desktop folder to show back up as the desktop. I figured out that
it was now displaying the contents of the public user folder because my anti-virus updated and put an icon/shortcut on the desktop. It was the only icon on this desktop. When I looked to see where the shortcut was located, it showed "C:\Users\Public\Desktop". Prior
to this I thought maybe it was in tablet mode like the forums suggest. Not the case here. Any thoughts on how I can get MY desktop back instead of the public one?

 

From public desktop to user desktop

Basically I turned on onedrive auto sync just now and all my files on desktop are in the directory of onedrive.

After I stopped the auto sync, it went back to public desktop (as the directory of an application showed) and there were many icons missing.

Could someone tell me how to restore my desktop or at least go back to the user desktop instead of staying in the public desktop?

Any help will be appreciated!!!

 

Public Desktop showing instead of user desktop when logged in (Windows 10)

Hi, I had the same issue and I found it to be caused by OneDrive Desktop syncing.

To revert to your own Desktop right click the One Drive symbol and choose settings. Navigate to the 'Auto Save' Tab and in the Dropdown List next to 'Desktop' select 'This PC only'. After saving my Desktop instantly reverted back to my own, instead of the
public one. Obviously this turns off syncing of Desktop items, but I never wanted that anyway.