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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.
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!
Well, I do believe most things can cause this. However, in my case, it WAS "NORTON", WHICH DENOTED THAT EVERYTHING WAS FINE WITH MY APPLIATIONS ON MY DESKTOP.
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!
So, I had the same question. But I noticed that I was low on disk space. I uninstalled a program and the check marks went away.
Some cloud sync app like "Backup and sync from google"
Yeah, I noticed it with Google Drive. Thanks
