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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.
JUST CHECK WITH YOUR ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE.
I don't know if replying to my own post is bad form, but there's a thread herethat might explain what's going on.
I've just checked my registry and I appear to have two sets of OneDrive ovelays:
OneDrive1 ~ OneDrive5
(i.e. with six leading spaces before the word OneDrive) and
OneDrive1 ~ OneDrive6
(Just one leading space, and six of them, rather than five).
These are in addition to three keys for adobe and two others that I assume are used by Windows (EnhancedStorageShell and Offline Files)
I'm wondering if it mght be worth completely uninstalling OneDrive, manually deleting any leftover overlays in the registry, and then reinstalling it.
Can we stop with all the "Refresh your desktop" and "uninstall One Drive" answers now? We've got fifteen pages of it and it's really not helpful. Apart from antything else it's like getting a warning light on your dashboard and solving it by removing the bulb.
In my case it almost certainly is One Drive that caused it but I don't want to uninstall One Drive as then I wouldn't be able to use it! Nor do I want to disable the overlay, as it's useful to know that my One Drive files are synced. What I do want to know is why it's suddenly started syncing my desktop.
I have a theory. Recently my laptop received the 1803 update, which includes Windows Timeline. A feature of this is that you can scroll back and see activity from any machine on your Microsoft Account, and quickly restore that session to carry on working from where you left off. My desktop machine does NOT have this update yet, but maybe One Drive has beguin syncing my desktops on both machines because for some bizarre reason it's necessary for Timeline to work??
All supposition at this point, because Microsoft don't seem to believe in keeping their customers informed any more, and believe they can do whatever the hell they like with our personal data.
I realise this thread is years old, so this won't apply to anybody who posted before April this year, but it might point at the culprit for any new posters.
"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.
Also... The other answers about Norton 360 and other backup programs are valid and they too can cause the problem.
The "Refresh" solution will fix it if you first turn off the offending program's "Feature" or Turn off "OneDrive" or disable "Desktop" synch prior to the refresh.
