A colour picker? Or something else?
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Your KMS 'activation' may have to be dealt with first...

The free upgrade from '7 was stopped a few months back.

If you had a validly activated Win 10 after such an upgrade then any major change of hardware could invalidate it.

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Spend $39.99 and...

geen licentie = no license.

Basic idea- try to identify the source of this.

It's either external (via the internet e.g. synching etc) - or internal- something installed or configured or malware.
If you can separate those...

Great, thanks- no worries, as they say.
Many people choose to uninstall Onedrive- others find it useful. There are numerous sources of icon overlays.

The middle one will be something like Onedrive, sync status.

These are 'icon overlays' - often asked about.

green-tick-or-blue-arrows-icon-overlay-displayed-for-files-in-windows-explorer
...

That's because you've changed the association. Or some program you've installed has.

By default it's explorer.exe

Does not post #11 help you?
Or perhaps see:
windows 10 - "Mount" for .ISO's...

Goodbye then.

You may need to zip the file and then upload it to a cloud site if it's too big for tenforums.

Only certain file types are accepted by sites.

Types and limits here for tenforums:
How to Upload...

A common cause of not being able to type in the taskbar searchbox is ctfmon.exe not running. But not the only one.

It would be interesting to see if the problem recurred with the internet...

An upgrade repair of Win 10 would fix it. A correct Recovery partition would fix it. You don't need Win 11 to fix it but go ahead.

And as said- if no bitlocker- you don't need it and if so, a lot...

MS says it needs 250MB free space in the Recovery partition. Bree has run some tests and I think he found a little less would suffice.

There are various conditions to be met.

But as I...

Is your PC synched (via your MS account) with any other device?

I've never seen or heard of anyone experiencing this kind of problem.

Is it reversible if you use an appropriate System Restore...

Note: if you read the News section article about that update you will likely realise you don't even need it.

So, you could just hide it (tutorial available or use e.g. WUmgr (free) - more...

Hi, you could:

1. Hibernate (resuming -> PC exactly as was). This is also a power down state- you can switch off completely.

or
2. Try this, noting the limitation:

Turn On or Off...

:thumbsup: - one of the old ones... good news.

If it helps in future you can set a System Restore point to be created on schedule. I have one created daily.
Tutorial available.

Consider settings e.g. here as appropriate for your system and note the uninstall/reinstall options, and to the right, Restore advanced settings.

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Good that you've not lost data and were able to deal with the 'foreign' status.

Theoretically it should be possible to move storage spaces between PCs - in practice it seems not so reliable.

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Nothing more can be said.

History please:
1. Has this Win 10 installation EVER been activated?
2. If not, have you recently tried to upgrade from Win 7 or 8.1?
3. Or have you, for example, clean installed Win 10 and then...

This is well known.. in general.

Unfortunately that's correct. Simply search tenforums for the few storage spaces threads...and you'll get that impression.

Did your problem perhaps occur after upgrading to Win 11, or a feature...

You could download it on another PC, upload it somewhere, then download it...

You can certainly try an in-place upgrade repair install using an iso file (Tutorial available).

Whether it will help...you can only try. That the problem is present on a new account supports...