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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.
After I turned the computer all the way off and turned it back on, I reinstalled Windows 10 and everything was fine. No more check marks.
Best response I found after looking for it for a while:
https://superuser.com/questions/957830/what-are-these-green-checkmarks-on-my-desktop-icons
"Apparently the checkmarks may have been added by Microsoft OneDrive.
Another cause can be Norton backup flagging the files as backed up.
Right clicking the desktop and choosing 'Refresh' should get rid of the checkmarks."
I don't use anything Norton related, so my guess is that OneDrive may be the responsible of this unexpected marks.
In any case, just refreshing the windows desktop all the marks will dissapear.
Same effect to me just refreshing the desktop, so defender may not be the problem (not sure).
I don't use Norton 360 and I have the same problem. I do use Norton Security, so I asked them about the problem. They replied:
This is not caused by Norton (Norton backup overlays are white check marks in a green square on the lower left part of the icon). What you are seeing are possibly related to Microsoft OneDrive or some other program.
So back to Microsoft. What about OneDrive?
FYI: Much less frequently a different symbol replaces the shortcut arrows on the icons. Once they were all replaced with red Xs. When I looked at them, they suddenly changed back to shortcut arrows.
