A perpetrated a rather messy thread (here) which ran together several problems. I create this post for the single remaining problem (or at least the more serious of those problems).
The problem is as follows. Try what I might, I have a confusingly-named 'virtual' folder under which are filed two things called 'desktop', each of which is actually my desktop directory, though one has the path C:\Users\<me>\Desktop and the other the virtual path 'Desktop'. Image:
What I'd like is to be rid of (the display of) all that, and just have 'my PC'. At present, though - for one thing - 'My PC' is filed under (one of the instances of) 'Desktop'!
What do the three Desktop folders look like in the file display, if you select them in the tree?
Do you have shortcuts to your desktop folder inside your desktop folder? (Maybe created by accidental drag & drop when clicking.) Explorer won’t show those in the tree but Opus can.
As to the two 'desktop' folders that are nested within that first one: both seem to be identical to their parent, except that they - the children, as it were - lack various folders. Those folders that are present in the parent but lacking in the children include: 'desktop' (sic); control panel; This PC.
I would say that the top-level desktop folder should be called 'This PC' - except that it (the top-level desktop folder) includes a This PC icon! The 'Desktop' item within the top-level Desktop folder does not seem to be deletable by Opus.
Also - ah; Explorer itself shows three 'desktop' entries - see, within the following image, especially the bottom.
Taking a cue from this article, I searched in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID for System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree. But therein I found nothing that mentioned the word 'desktop'.
EDIT:
Update: apparently custom 'namespace' entries go here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace. I found such an entry and deleted it. Having done so, the last 'desktop' entry no longer appears in Explorer. And now Opus shows this:
You probably shouldn’t delete all of those, but it does sound like something added entries there that show the Desktop under itself, which is very strange.
What do you mean? Isn’t that just the actual This PC folder?
I think I might have added it myself; I don't remember so doing - not quite - but I do remember, some time ago, fiddling (via some utility, perhaps) with what Explorer displays. Also: the entry that corresponded to 'desktop' was the only item within that registry key.
I could have been clearer when I wrote of a desktop folder masquerading as 'This PC'. What I mean what this, which I see within Opus:
That is: in Opus (but not, now, in Explorer), there is a folder called 'desktop' that shows not only the items on my desktop but, also, 'networking' (and the recycle bin, but showing the bin is OK, because I do see the bin on my actual desktop). File Explorer shows 'networking' (and the bin), additionally, as separate top-level items. I am fine with those additional entries within Explorer (and Opus does not show them). Yet, I'd like to remove the networking item that appears - in Opus, and as depicted above - under 'desktop'.
That's just the normal Desktop folder. What is under it in the tree can be configured via the Preferences page I told you about in the first reply in this thread. You can move Network etc. out of it if you don't want them in there.
(They are only there by default because that's how Windows used to arrange things. Microsoft get drunk and rearrange things in File Explorer every other Sunday on a whim, so we don't try to keep up with their increasingly bizarre "standard" tree layout anymore; instead, we let you choose where things go yourself.)
