Now some users have reported that the desktop icons do not show when they place them on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 desktop. If you face this issue, then this post will help you.

If you don't disable it manually, most will add a new desktop icon by default. After a few years of this, you'll find that your desktop has become a cluttered catastrophe of icons, usually not ...

This frustration is reflected in the Windows 11 Feedback Hub, where a suggestion to never combine app icons and show labels has received 17,527 upvotes, making it the 10th most requested feature.