Windows 10: Onedrive messing with my desktop files and shortcuts

ok, I am very new to this Onedrive. I just bought office 365 today. after a few minutes that I let the onedrive to work, my desktop was completely mess up.for those files, I understand but those shortcuts????. well, right now I just want to make new shortcuts and place them on my desktop without the onedrive touching it. but how ?. because i can only select some folders on my desktop to un-sync via onedrive settings but not the files or shortcuts.

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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.

 

Desktop Shortcut Icons

Hi Mik-Dav,

The desktop shortcut created for a specific website should bear the website's actual logo. With what you've experienced, there could be something wrong with how the shortcut was created.

If you've created the shortcut by selecting Create shortcut, then we suggest that you try the other way, that is by dragging the website icon that appears in the address bar to your desktop. Follow these steps:

• Using Internet Explorer, access a website.
• Once the website opens, you will see its icon in the address bar.
• Click and drag the icon on your desktop.

The website shortcut bearing its actual logo should now be saved on your desktop.

Let us know if you need further help.

Regards.

 

NOTEPAD MAKE SHORTCUT TO FILE ON DESKTOP

Hi Anne,

There are several ways of creating or putting a shortcut on the Desktop. One of which is by using the
Send to option.

Here are the steps on how to do it:

• Go to the file that you want to create as a shortcut on your Desktop.
• Right-click on it.
• Choose Send to, then click Desktop
  (create shortcut) as shown on the picture below.
  
  

Let us know if you need further assistance.