Desktop icons with clock

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Occasionally some of my desktop icon appear with a blue & white ‘clock’ in the lower left corner.

What is this all about?

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Mine has a small blue, curved arrow with a white background in the lower left corner, pointing to the shortcut icon. Never seen a clock. Did you change any themes in Settings>Display per chance?

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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Nothing changed in any settings.

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I tried googling it and found nothing. I’ve never heard of what you are describing. Sorry

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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I tried googling it and found nothing. I’ve never heard of what you are describing. Sorry

Screen shot of what I am seeing

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Do you run any third party tweaking or cleaning tools?

Did you apply some third party Windows theme?

--Joe

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As Joe suggests, those shortcut icons aren’t from W10. It looks like only your documents and applications have them, not the windows icons.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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It sounds as if you have some sort of strange shortcut overlay. Perhaps this site can help you out.

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http://winaero.com/blog/remove-shortcut-arrow-overlay-in-windows-10/

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Restarted the system and it returned to the normal shortcut arrow.

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Restarted the system and it returned to the normal shortcut arrow.

There ya go!

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There ya go!

I may go ‘there’ however, I would like to understand where I was and why.

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Restarted the system and it returned to the normal shortcut arrow.

Glad to hear that it was resolved. If you figure out what happened, post back.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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That’s really strange. Invaded by the Tick-Tock man?

To be honest, I was never quite sure why someone at MS thought it would be a good idea to add the shortcut arrow overlay to icons in the first place. I don’t give a rats butt if an icon is a shortcut or not. To me, it’s just useless clutter. At the very least, it should be a simple option just like other display options to display it or not.

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