How to stop mirroring Windows desktop on Mac?

I have Parallels 18, Windows 11, and Mac OS 13.2.

I would like to stop the mirroring of the Windows desktop on my Mac. Icons that appear on the Windows desktop should not appear on my Mac desktop. In the configuration settings, in Sharing, on the "Share Mac" tab, the "mirror Mac and Windows user files" is checked, and in the customization for that setting, everything is checked EXCEPT desktop. I say again, desktop is NOT checked. I have restarted the computer (the actual Mac) since un-checking desktop, yet the mirroring continues. If I delete something from the Mac desktop, it disappears from the Windows desktop. If I add something to the Windows desktop, it appears on the Mac desktop.

How can I make it stop?

(Disclaimer: I have searched in Google and found some results for older versions of Parallels that do not seem relevant to 18. I've searched in this forum but could not narrow the results down to anything helpful.)

 

Hello @JJR512, in order to stop the desktop mirroring between host Mac and windows 11 VM, please uncheck the 'desktop' item in the list as mentioned in this link - share Mac files and customize the other folders accordingly. To learn about isolate virtual machines from mac, refer to this link - Isolate a virtual machine from Mac (parallels.com). Thanks

 

But...I literally already explained that I've already unchecked that box. Unchecked it, shut down Windows/Parallels, and restarted that Mac. It's still mirroring.

 

Hello @JJR512, we have created the support ticket#3932655 to assist you further, please check your inbox **r*1*@gmail.com for the same. Thanks.

 

Is there a solution on this yet?