This morning when I turned on my computer, all my thumbnails have blue boxes on the lower left. No more blue word logo for word, green excel logo for excel, and mountain scene for .jpg's. Is it something I did or is this another Microsoft "improvement"? Can I somehow revert back to the way it was? Thanks
Mark
A screenshot might help.
How to Upload and Post Screenshots and Files - TenForumsTutorials
All the best,
Denis
I'm going to hazard a guess you're referring to icon overlays.. if so, as Try3 says, an image is essential. And if so these can be from synching programs like Onedrive and 3rd party programs like Norton and some backup programs.
And if so, this kind of question has been asked before on tenforums, so feel free to search tenforums, or perhaps try an image search with Google. Or search for icon overlays... try this:
List of shell icon overlay identifiers - Wikipedia
and see if you see yours.
It's a blue box with two ">" in it. It appears on every file. Could it be from a Norton update? I have not added or deleted any programs. As I mentioned, these appeared when I turned on my computer.
Hi, thanks for the photo.
I searched
blue 2 white chevrons icon overlay
for you - see:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...3-7b44acd3f20f
where you will see similar. I mentions e.g.
- one I mentioned in my first post.Do you have Norton Backup installed? If so, those arrows indicate when something has been backed up.
Go into Norton Settings > Backup and uncheck the option for "Backup Status Overlay"
Same issue covered here:
how to remove blue box with arrows?
There are many ways to create a good screenshot from Windows features to 3rd party freeware:
Take Screenshot in Windows 10
I use Duckcapture a lot.
Those are Norton backup overlays & show the files are ready to be synced/are being added to the backup.
Tbh I found Norton Backup very complicated especially when trying to restore a file.
Thanks for all the help. It was Norton causing it. I followed the above link and turned off the overlay and when I rebooted, they were gone. Thanks again.
Mark
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