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Suddenly all my desktop icons have green check marks on them. What does it mean? How do I fix them?
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Suddenly all my desktop icons have green check marks on them. What does it mean? How do I fix them?
Hi,
Do you use norton 360? Norton -> Settings -> Backup Settings -> Backup Status Overlays -> OFF -> Apply. After you run your next backup (you can do it manually) the check marks will disappear.
Hope this helps.
For me the Desktop Backup setting in the new Backup and Sync from Google seems to have been the cause.
When a thread gets this long I would think you could assume that a poster really wants to be helped and has read THE WHOLE THREAD.
In point of fact, anyone who thinks that someone looking for help here must have read through the thread will be continually disappointed. Practically no one reads before posting, so the assumption should be that it hasn't happened.
Some cloud sync app like "Backup and sync from google"
Thank you. Question: how do I STOP the many, many answers to my question. I must have gotten 50 since I replied that this fixed the problem.
At the bottom of each notification email you receive, you'll see this:
The words "On the question" form a link to the question you want to unsubscribe to.
