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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.
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 didn't have Norton installed. So I found my own solution.
I use Windows Defender. So I opened it, went to Settings, then disabled Cloud-based protection. Then I went desktop and refresh, Voala!!
Works for Win 10 as well - no idea why they suddenly appeared
