Windows 10 just changed how desktop links appear

[UnknownEngineer]

<1080p image of entire desktop

 

I received no notification of this change, either it was done by windows 10 itself, or it was done by something malicious. (I see that as highly unlikely)

Any way to change this back to normal? I preferred having a little white box on the bottom left of icons to a VERY visible green circle.

 

Since when was this change introduced? And is it really done by windows? I remember messing up my file associations with Win7, that made adobe open all my .lnk files (quick links). 

[Kherm]

I've NEVER seen ANYTHING like that before. I don't know what to say, a green check usually shows up next to every file in OneDrive. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Mhmmmm... doesn't seem like an update thing.

 

 

[Guest Kloaked]

Right click an empty space on your desktop and click Refresh.

[UnknownEngineer]

I've NEVER seen ANYTHING like that before. I don't know what to say, a green check usually shows up next to every file in OneDrive. 

That is correct...

So my Win 10 just decided to synch all my desktop icons with one-drive... Actually, the filetypes have changed too, they are not .lnk any more, the are .url.

EDIT: steam icons are .url, everything else is .lnk as usual, sorry.

 

WTF, I am going to check if they even work anymore.

[UnknownEngineer]

Right click an empty space on your desktop and click Refresh.

And that somehow fixed it, I guess MS just wanted my desktop for some reason...

 

Last time I had issues with icons my SSD's writes got maxed out, my system slowed to a crawl. Atleast my OS wasn't trying to change half a billion file assosiations this time.

 

Why did this thing happen in the first place? I don't use onedrive, and I am pretty sure it signed it self out a while back.

EDIT: Apparently onedrive received an update 2 hours ago, odd that I didn't notice it until just 10 minutes ago.

[Guest Kloaked]

And that somehow fixed it, I guess MS just wanted my desktop for some reason...

 

Last time I had issues with icons my SSD's writes got maxed out, my system slowed to a crawl. Atleast my OS wasn't trying to change half a billion file assosiations this time.

 

Why did this thing happen in the first place? I dont use onedrive, and I am pretty sure it signed it self out a while back.

 

It's happened on previous versions of Windows after updates. I'm not sure exactly what causes it though.

[UnknownEngineer]

It's happened on previous versions of Windows after updates. I'm not sure exactly what causes it though.

Well, if there is anyone out there who can give me a little scare from time to time, it would be MS.

I'll need to figure out if I can see onedrive traffic somewhere, I only synch my skyrim saves, and music, though that doesn't seem to be working. 2+ GB of music and OD is using ~300MB.

[The Official Czex]

Maybe your antivirus went through your shortcuts to scan them. The green check could mean that it didn't find anything malicious. 

[pspfreak]

Maybe your antivirus went through your shortcuts to scan them. The green check could mean that it didn't find anything malicious. 

I instantly thought that it sounds like something an antivirus would do. 

[UnknownEngineer]

Maybe your antivirus went through your shortcuts to scan them. The green check could mean that it didn't find anything malicious. 

 

I instantly thought that it sounds like something an antivirus would do. 

Nope, Avast would never mark the files themselves, it would almost certainly just give me a notification. It would be really strange behaviour from an AV to do that.

 

At least that's how I see it, the first thing I thought of was a cryptolocker, because a change like the one I observed would mean something was written to make the change. An AV wouldn't write anything to files it has processed. That at least was my initial theory.

 

Anyhow it's gone now, and it is late here, 3AM, I need to get to sleeping.

[pspfreak]

Nope, Avast would never mark the files themselves, it would almost certainly just give me a notification. It would be really strange behaviour from an AV to do that.

 

At least that's how I see it, the first thing I thought of was a cryptolocker, because a change like the one I observed would mean something was written to make the change. An AV wouldn't write anything to files it has processed. That at least was my initial theory.

 

Anyhow it's gone now, and it is late here, 3AM, I need to get to sleeping.

Heh, when i had Avast, i found it to pretty invasive, so it wouldn't surprise me at all tbh. It makes me think of what Avast does to search results, i think so anyway.. maybe thats a different AV

[UnknownEngineer]

Heh, when i had Avast, i found it to pretty invasive, so it wouldn't surprise me at all tbh. It makes me think of what Avast does to search results, i think so anyway.. maybe thats a different AV

Avast wasn't the one that said it was selling it's customers search results, I think it was MCaffee. The only invasive thing about Avast is the popups telling me to get a VPN every now and then. And I barely notice those, I like Avast, but I haven't really tested other options all that much.

 

Probably the last time I put money into an AV ever again, I have found my self to not really need it.