After a reboot my desktop Windows icons have a green tick against them. This reminded me of source control / upload managers like SNV or Dropbox. I don’t run any of these on the machine – unless Windows OneDrive, which I try to disable always, is playing with settings.
A quick search revealed :
Go to Control Panel > Folder Options > View > Use check boxes to select items.
Untick the box with the check. Click ok.
The check box was unticked – so I ticked it anyway to see what happened and the green ticks disappeared – I kept ticking to see if they returned but they stayed disappeared. Sorted!
Thanks for the tip – just happened to me on my Server 2016.
check synchronizing with google drive. Disable it!
thanks – so random
Many thanks to the writer, It’s a very simple and easy trick, but is this work for all?
I found a better solution, right click your desktop and then click refresh and the check marks go away.