How to remove OneDrive icon overlay checkmarks in Windows 10
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00:00 How To Remove Onedrive Icon Overlay Checkmarks In Windows 10
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Download NirSoft ShellExView from here
You're searching for the entries highlighted in this screenshot:
Then restart Windows Explorer with Task Manager. Overlay icons should not appear from now on.
Disabling this overlay also fixes Documents folder being duplicated in Windows Explorer navigation sidebar.
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Using regedit, navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
You should see a set of folders like "OneDrive1", "Onedrive2", etc. Each of these relates to one of the overlay icons. You can delete them or rename them like "OneDrive1-D" to disable them. For reference if you only want particular icons disabled (for example only the obnoxious green overlay), their functions are:
- Not syncing (red x)
- Synced - Shared
- Syncing - Shared
- Synced
- Syncing
References:
Which OneDrive icon/status is for which Icon Overlay Identifier name?
Remove Green Check Mark Icon Overlay: Dropbox, SkyDrive, & Others
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An alternative tool for deactivating overlay icons is Autoruns from Sysinternals:
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The icon is in this DLL C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\17.3.6998.0830\amd64\FileSyncShell64.dll
I used IcoFX to open the DLL and edit the icon using the Opacity to turn them to -90%. I changed all 8 versions of the icon to make sure I got them all.
Once you save the icon file go to Tools, Icon Resource Editor and you can save your file back over the icon in the DLL. I had to turn off OneDrive, renamed the .dll, then copied in my new FileSyncShell64.dll Restart my computer, the icon is gone.