Install on laptop - how to avoid sync with Windows 10 apps on desktop PC?

Installed Windows 11 from USB (media creation tool) onto my laptop, formatted C-drive.
All goes well.
However, at the very end it seems Windows 11 tries to sync with the desktop apps: I get a bunch of 'empty white' icons.
Even the existing icon of Microsoft Edge is renamed to 'Microsoft Edge (Copy)'

Obviously I can delete all that, but how to avoid this in the first place?

I only want OneDrive to sync.

Thanks.

tfwul said:

.... it seems Windows 11 tries to sync with the desktop apps: I get a bunch of 'empty white' icons. ... I only want OneDrive to sync.

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Welcome to Eleven Forum.

Open Settings and go to Accounts > Windows Backup. You can choose what to sync there. Mine is greyed out because I'm not using a Microsoft account.

Thanks. Frankly, I wished I did nót install Windows 11 on my laptop. I believe there has not been a kind of warning that it will affect Windows 10 setup. After booting my Windows 10 desktop PC, 20 (!) of the 42 desktop icons are gone. Will post a separate thread on that.

I think you will find that it's a One drive issue not W11.
One drive will replicate your "desktop" icons and if you delete them from your laptop, it will also delete them from the "desktop" of your PC.
I found that out the Hardway.
If you look at the thread, I have created about removing icons from my laptop you will see potential ways to avoid this problem. I had no orphan or
blank icons,
but I'm pure W11 Pro.
I'm about to try removing desktop from PC and laptop.