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
    2015-12-27T02:33:49+00:00

    The green check marks popped up for me after installing SKSE for Skyrim.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-25T17:15:18+00:00

    didn't work for me.  What else?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-18T20:46:09+00:00

    In my case it was Verizon cloud backup showing which files were marked for backup.  I suspect others were seeing Xs because a similar program was displaying the selected files/folders to backup.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-14T11:37:27+00:00

    I had this problem too and refreshing the desk top worked for me thanks!

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