red and blue dots on the icons on my desktop
Ayla
Office 2007, and uninstalled Home and Student version. Since then, red and
blue dots appeared on the left bottom corner on the icons on my desktop.
Microsoft and Sony did not solve the problem. Why it happened and how can I
get rid of them?
Please help.
Thanks,
Ayla
Hans-Georg Michna
Ayla (of the cave bear clan? :-),
Most desktop icons have a little white square in the lower left
corner with a little black arrow pointing up and right. Are
these little arrows still present or have they perhaps been
replaced with the red and blue dots?
Does the recycle bin also have these dots? I suspect not.
I'm asking because it is conceivable that that little sub-icon
has been damaged. Not sure if that would lead us anywhere, but
it may still be good to know.
Hans-Georg
--
No mail, please.
Ayla
Thanks for the answer. Some of the shortcuts are covered with those dots,
some of them are not, such as; My Documents folder does not have the dot.
But, some of the folders in that folder have. Recyle Bin, My Computer,
Control Panel, Easy-Photo, Skype do not have dots.
Ayla
Mark
You will probably find that these are not dots, but small Microsoft emblems
indicating the file is running in compatibility mode. (Or something akin.)
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Mark
find it "standard" as part of Windows.
Are the "dots" on all icons, just shortcuts, just folders?
Did they remain when you made them larger?
These overlays are typically invoked by the programs running them and
usually appear only in the tray:
Microsoft versions (there are plenty more by third party software)
Red dot - Stopped
Green dot - Started
Circled red down arrow - Disconnected
Circled grey down arrow - Offline
Yellow triangle with exclamation - Warning
Red X - Error
Red exclamation mark - Needs attention
The following overlays apply mostly to shortcuts and not always to their
associated file:
(Folders will show them even if not a shortcut.)
White background, black arrow - Typical shortcut
Green dot with small yellow arrows - Offline file setup for synchronization
Two tiny blue arrows circling - Win2000 Offline file overlay
Grey X - Offline file placeholder, not cached
UAC Shield - File requires elevation to run
One little face - Shared file, specific
Two little faces - Shared file, everyone
Are there more? Most likely.
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Ayla
Those are on some folders, files, some program shortcuts, not all. For
example, Outlook 2007 has red dot, all the others are blue. My Document does
not have, but when I open My Documents, all the files and folders in it have.
I had taken the picture of my desktop. I hope there is a way to send the
picture to you.
Thanks, Ayla
Paul Randall
> Mark,
>
> Those are on some folders, files, some program shortcuts, not all. For
> example, Outlook 2007 has red dot, all the others are blue. My Document
> does
> not have, but when I open My Documents, all the files and folders in it
> have.
> I had taken the picture of my desktop. I hope there is a way to send the
> picture to you.
If you access the newsgroup through a real newsreader, like Vista's
replacement for Outlook Express, then you can attach things to a post and
others can get those attachments. To minimize the size of a screen capture,
edit it with MSPaint and select only a small area around the icon, copy it
and paste it into a new MSPaint window. Save it as .png, then add .txt to
the file name before attaching it to your post. .png is a non-lossy
compressed format that is very efficient for typical stuff in a window.
Adding the .txt extension makes it less likely to be rejected by virus
scanners.
-Paul Randall
Ayla
Thank you for your help. I edited my desktop picture, and saved as txt.png.
as you recommended. Now, how can I attach to my post? Thanks, Ayla