Green circles, white checkmarks AFTER Norton Internet Security install

My brother has a new computer. It came with 30 days Norton. He already has a subscription. I downloaded a fresh Norton Internet Security under his account and it removed the trial and replaced with his account version.

Now every icon on the desktop has a green circle and white checkmark, but only the desktop icons, nothing in Windows Explorer. And it is the same item that is on the Norton icon in the icon tray (Windows 10).

Other threads have mentioned a setting that can be checked to turn this off, but was Norton 360; I cannot find this setting in NIS.

Help?

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Son-of-a... Turned the machine on today - circles and checks gone.

??????

No, he has Norton Internet Security.

Check this thread from Sevenforums . com. Check the third post that identifies a registry entry where you can determine which program is adding the overlays. 

https://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/379360-green-check-marks-appearing-desktop-icons-what-causes.html

 

FWIW:

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MatthewPersico:

The circle matches the one in the Norton Icon in the Icon Tray.

That is not relevant to what you are showing in your screenshot.  As you can see from the image I posted, Norton's overlays are not at all like those you are seeing.  What you show is definitely not anything associated with Norton.  It is some other backup program.  I mentioned OneDrive because the overlays appear to be from that program, but there are other applications that may use similar-looking overlays.

Is there any backup software installed on this machine?  Maybe it is caused by another program as if it was Norton we all would of seen it on our machines.

Thanks.

My brother is not signed into OneDrive. Doesn't even have an account. The circle matches the one in the Norton Icon in the Icon Tray. The circles only appeared after I downloaded and installed Norton Internet Explorer from his Norton account.

SendOfJive:
password_password:
SendOfJive:

Norton Backup overlays are square and offset to the bottom left corner of the desktop icon.  What you are showing in the screenshot are Microsoft OneDrive overlays.

How can the desktop be in the onedrive folder?

What?  See the icons on the desktop in the screenshot?  Those green circles are OneDrive overlays.  Norton's are shaped and placed differently on those icons than the OneDrive overlays, as below:

Last I checked one drive syncing applied to the onedrive folder (formerly sky drive). These files appear to be on the desktop. Just trying to understand what microsoft has changed now.

password_password:
SendOfJive:

Norton Backup overlays are square and offset to the bottom left corner of the desktop icon.  What you are showing in the screenshot are Microsoft OneDrive overlays.

How can the desktop be in the onedrive folder?

What?  See the icons on the desktop in the screenshot?  Those green circles are OneDrive overlays.  Norton's are shaped and placed differently on those icons than the OneDrive overlays, as below:

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SendOfJive:

Norton Backup overlays are square and offset to the bottom left corner of the desktop icon.  What you are showing in the screenshot are Microsoft OneDrive overlays.

How can the desktop be in the onedrive folder?

Norton Backup overlays are square and offset to the bottom left corner of the desktop icon.  What you are showing in the screenshot are Microsoft OneDrive overlays.

Does your brother have Norton Security Premium version with the backup function? As paolpaul notes this may be the overlay feature that lets you know your files have been backed up.

To turn this off, open Norton Security and click on Settings, and on the right side under Quick Controls, un check the setting for Backup Status Overlays.

 

 

It reminds me off the "overlay" setting in backup . Norton places a overlay symbol to indicate the file has been recognized for backing up. In "Backup" there is a switch to "Turn off overlays", in Windows 7, and maybe later.