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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!
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.
Right Clicking on the desktop and clicking on refresh fixed this issue .. But .. My intrest is why did they show up to begin with I don't use Norton or one drive?? is there something more going on ? Is there a possability someone out there has found a way to sync files from other computers.. ??? Microsoft should consider this possibility
The green circles with white check marks suddenly showed up on my desktop. I did a Bing search and found this, as other discussions. I don't use Norton. I tried the "refresh" thing---no good. I did the right click on the desktop, then clicked on "view", then, without thinking unchecked "Show desktop icons". My icons disappeared giving me some pause. I restarted my computer and then "re-checked" the "Show desktop Icons". No checks showed initially, but now, I see they are back.....Crumb, I'll have to try something else.
