How To Remove Green Check Marks on Desktop Icons in Windows 10/11 [Solution]

How To Remove Green Check Marks on Desktop Icons in Windows 10/11 [Solution]

In this tutorial, i will shows you why is there a green check mark on desktop icons and how to remove it effectively. Generally speaking well the green check mark on desktop icons means that Microsoft 's OneDrive has successfully backed up your files to the cloud. All selected files and folders that have been backed up are marked with a green check mark.

The green check mark has two main types. One is the green outlined checkmark. while the other is the solid filled checkmark. The former means that files on your desktop are only available online and are just downloaded. If the always keep on this device option on the second green check mark is enabled, these files can be downloaded to your Windows and occupy drive space.

Modify the Registry Editor:
1. Press Windows+R to open the Run dialog, type regedit in the search box, and hit Enter.
2. Navigate to the following folder path in the Registry Editor: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers.
3. Before removing any keys, right-click on the ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers folder and select Export. Then, save the file in your preferred location. This will create a backup file in case you need to restore any keys later.
4. Under the ShellIconOverlay folder, you will see several OneDrive keys.
5. Now, select and delete all the OneDrive keys one at a time.

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[memoryvlog]

Hello po good afternoon watching po sa inyung magandang upload, nakkatulong po lalo sa mga d masyado gumamit ng mga ganyan at d masydo sa pag edit gaya ko salamat salamat po

[dontmissthelittlethings]

I don't remember seeing this issue.

[mr_sdeer]

when i did it it shows to me a hdd icon