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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.
That did it for me. It just had me freaked out, as I hadn't installed anything that should have created the checks. I guess it's just a Windows 10 anomaly.
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.
I do not have NORTON, I have MAfee and although I tried the same thing that worked for you for NORTON. Not so with McAfee. Thanks for helping others though.
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I have recently had this issue on our domain.
We disabled offline files on folder redirection last week, and since then I have had a few users with 'green ticks' on shortcuts.
I originally put it down to the fact that it meant they were connected to their files on the NAS drive with sufficient bandwidth as in some cases i.e laptop users were not conected to the VPN the icons would get the grey crosses. Yesterday however a user raised a ticket where their overlays would change at random intervals from green ticks, to sharing, to admin only and crosses.
It turns out that despite disabling offline files and changing the GPO to not automatically offline redirected folders, the cache was still in effect. So we cleared the cache by adding the DWORD FormatDatabase to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\CSC\Parameters with a value of 1 and then rebooting. This has solved our problem.
Hope this helps someone out.
Please note if you are using offline files in the same way that we were, please make sure that you have synced your files before adding the above DWORD as any unsynced files will be lost.
Yeah same here I few minutes ago I noticed them and I have no idea what could have caused them I refreshed the desktop as suggested and they went away, however it leaves the following questions like. Is this a permanent solution and what caused it to begin with? it's very odd.
