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Shortcuts icon problem

Anonymous
2021-12-03T15:11:15+00:00

As I was copying a file in my android device, all the shortcuts in Desktop had a little green round icon instead of the usual shortcut blue arrow, then I disconnected the device and the green round icons were replaced by the shared icon (the one with 2 people), since that was extremely suspicious i immediately disconnected from internet and checked if my C, Desktop, Users, or Programs folders were shared but they weren't.

I solved the problem by pressing F5, now my shortcuts have the blue arrow icon again but I wonder what happened, did this happen to someone else?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage

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DaveM121 891.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2021-12-03T16:41:54+00:00

Hi Alessio

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

The icon overlays in Windows are used to indicate the status of many things (OneDrive, shortcut, share, backup... etc).

Copying the file(s) may have triggered OneDrive to sync, the green icons are for OneDrive status, then when you disconnected the device, those overlays should have reverted to the usual shortcut overlays, not the share status, this was probably just a UI refresh glitch in Windows and honestly it is nothing to worry about it is not an indication of anything wrong with your system.

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