Comments on: Green Tick or Blue Arrows Icon Overlay Displayed for Files in Windows Explorer

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:40:13 +0000

Tracy here again…all the issues still exist HOWEVER, I was mistaken in the green checkmark, blue chevron; they DO disappear when electing that option in the NOrton 360 settings. I had to, either, refresh or restart to update the overlays. All else remains the same; again, NEWLY CREATED PDF documents are invisible to the Window’s 7 search engine. This problem DID NOT exist in Vista or XP. Your Guidance will be most gratefully accepted!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:45 +0000

I got all excited when I found your post however, that does not resolve my issue. Each of these icons/thumnails (green/blue) have different functions on my Windows 7 platform: The green check mark indicates a file that WILL BE LOCATED IN THE WINDOWS 7 SEARCH FUNCTION. If a blue chevron is on the icon, THAT FILL IS INVISIBLE TO THE SEARCH ENGINE! Most notably, all the PDF documents i create on Window’s 7 ALL have the blue chevron, hence ALL MY CREATED PDF DOCUMENTS ARE INVISIBLE TO WINDOWS 7 SEARCH!!! No one can seem to tell me why and how to correct it. By the way, those icons don’t disappear when I change the setting in Norton 360.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:48:38 +0000

once again proving that online questions and especially computer questions asking GOOGLE usually resolve the issue, takes patience and reading all the information but………usually works so THANK YOU ( I had the annoying blue arrows and didn’t know why or how to remove them )

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:57:36 +0000

Thanks alot, I thought this was part of the program Irfanview and had been pulling hair out trying to remove them while keeping the critical program for my work.

By: Bill Mateo

Bill Mateo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:05:44 +0000

THANK YOU!!! I have been suffering with the huge intrusive marks and had NO idea where they came from or how to get rid of them. It’s been awful! Now I am happy and stress free and can work with my graphics files easily. THanks!

By: carl

carl — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:46:47 +0000

Thanks so much for this infomation, I have windows XP at work. Installed is norton 360, I know why now blue Blue arrows apear in microsoft files.

By: Liverbird

Liverbird — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:41:21 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this!

I have been trying to help a member on our computer support forum with the same symptoms on his vista pc, but was completely baffled as he was only mentioning picture files with the blue or green overlays.

Obviously he must have only chosen these file types to be backed up with his Norton 360 program.

He had recently upgraded to version 3 of Norton 360 and seen these icons for the first time so perhaps the box is checked by default in that version. ?

Anyway .. thanks again … a good clear article ;-)