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
    2018-05-13T16:33:32+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-13T16:47:32+00:00

    JUST CHECK WITH YOUR ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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