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
    2018-05-14T13:59:18+00:00

    My issue got solved.  Shortly after posting, I think I removed everything from OneDrive--check marks gone.  Now, I notice that when I click on OneDrive only some "Music" with green checked box shows.  I'll delete that now.

    Anyhow, I'm not much help because I didn't document whatever I did.  I'll look at it again.  I don't at this time want anything to do with OneDrive---or the "Cloud".

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-13T23:03:42+00:00

    Flaming and unthoughtful comments that have already been covered, DO NOT help. When a thread gets this long I would think you could assume that a poster really wants to be helped and has read THE WHOLE THREAD.

    BTW... ALL CAPS IS HOLLERING... Please don't.

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

    JUST CHECK WITH YOUR ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-29T05:24:02+00:00

    So, I had the same question. But I noticed that I was low on disk space. I uninstalled a program and the check marks went away.

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