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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.
check my answer below in detail. Short version Onedrive is adding it because by default it syncs your desktop along with other folders like documents, pictures etc. Unchecking these folders from sync will remove the check mark
I found the answer. Thanks to the comments on onedrive.
This is caused by one drive which is now a part of Windows 10.
The green check mark means one drive is backing/syncing these files.
Right click on desktop and click on choose folders to sync. You will find your desktop along with all the windows folders synced.
Yes by default after an update onedrive decided to backup all these folders without telling us.
So I let them one as I would want to backup my desktop.
So turning of Backup overlays or uninstalling Onedrive is not the correct solutions especially if you use onedrive.
Simply deselect the desktop from sync, while at it also remove other folders you don't want to sync.
Easier solution. Move your mousepointer to an empty area on the desktop, right click and choose refresh. They disappear!
Two things:
a) I do NOT have any Norton products on my PC
b) Mine appeared during a grueling 10 hour data transfer, moving the auto back up files off my auxillary drive and onto my server. I think one of two things happened - 1) The computer just got overwhelmed with doing too many things at once and/or 2) It checked programs off as the back ups were moved. I am more inclined to thing that the 1TB move of data and me using the machine concurrently just overloaded stuff.
In any event, it's an easy fix!
I am having the green checkmark problem, and i went to a blank area in my windows 10 and it didn't work.
"OneDrive" causes this and since it is automatically loaded at a new version of Windows (Windows Upgrade) so it seems to show up without cause. To stop this simply have OneDrive NOT synch the Desktop.
This Is the answer you're looking for folks.
