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Most desktop icons disappeared -- tied to deleting OneDrive folder?
Win 11 Pro 24H2, recently updated from Win 10. I don't want OneDrive on my computer and had manually deleted all indications of it except one, the OneDrive folder. That was to be the last step, along...
Deleting the OneDrive folder is causing your desktop icons and shortcuts to break or get re-associated with the cloud sync service. This can happen if the desktop is still set to sync with OneDrive or if some registry entries or shell extensions are pointing to OneDrive.