Green check marks on desktop icons

Anonymous
2009-11-10T23:14:51+00:00

Suddenly all my desktop icons have green check marks on them.  What does it mean?  How do I fix them?

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Anonymous
2011-02-14T02:55:52+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-05-14T00:40:37+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-13T23:03:42+00:00

    Flaming and unthoughtful comments that have already been covered, DO NOT help. 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.

    BTW... ALL CAPS IS HOLLERING... Please don't.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-13T21:37:38+00:00

    I found that Desktop was in the OneDrive folder and it could not be removed. I solved it by turning off OneDrive and moving the contents of it into "users\My Name\…\Desktop". Then I deleted "\OneDrive\desktop" after which I turned OneDrive back on. Then I made sure that Desktop pointed to the right location (not in OneDrive). The green circles were gone.

    And YES... This happened on my computer right after the 1803 upgrade.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-05-13T17:53:42+00:00

    JUST CHECK WITH YOUR ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE.

    Barbara

    Do you think:

    a) I'm stupid?

    b) I haven't read the fifteen pages preceeding this?

    or

    c) both?

    I like to think that the amount of carefully detailed thought I've put into my posts would imply otherwise.

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