![]() When writing this blog post, I decided to look again into the matter again (I had recently briefly looked at how to fix this, but immediately abandoned it due to lack of time). And in the sense of "not aware of any fault", the thought "I didn't do anything" immediately came to my mind. ![]() This should normally be the indicator for compressed folders. Now I only had the effect that some desktop icons in the top right corner are overlaid with a blue double arrow (see following image). So I ran the program, tolerated the forced logout from the user account and, after logging back in to the user account, had my desktop icons again without a magnifying glass and shadow font for the icon titles. There I provided a small VBScript script program ShadowOff.vbs, which disables the shadow font via registry intervention. However, this was an easy exercise, as I had already struggled with this issue in Windows 7 times and published the German blog post Schattenschrift für Desktopsymbole deaktivieren in July 2010. The reason for this is that I am using a plain white desktop background where Windows uses the shadow font for the desktop icon titles by default. But all desktop icons suddenly had a shadow font in the title. I was able to remove the magnifying glass from the desktop icons with my "trial and error". As a result, Windows overlaid the desktop icons with the magnifying glass icon. I assume that pressing keys initiated the sequence to improve the screen display, but this was never activated. I had to uncheck the option High contrast by pressing …, and click to Apply.Īfter that, the magnifying glass icons on the desktop disappeared. The post here says "Uncheck the Turn on Magnifier box." But I had to uncheck the checkbox High contrast by pressing …, because the magnifier was shown as deactivated.Ĥ. Then the page below (it's the German edition shown here) has been shown. In Ease of Access Center I selected, as far as I remember, the option Make the computer easier to see. Then I selected the Ease of Access Center in the control panel, to go to the center (the screenshot below shows the German edition of this center).ģ. I entered Control Panel in the search field of the taskbar and opened the Control Panel. However, I had definitely not activated the magnifier, but had to assume that I had mistakenly pressed key combinations that activate options for Ease of Access Control.ġ. I found the relevant information in the Microsoft Answers article Desktop icons with magnifying glass from 2018, which mentioned the magnifier that can be switched on via the Control Panel. The wildest theories for causes were mentioned – even malware was included. A quick search then brought up umpteen sites like the entries here and here, which referred to Windows 10 and Windows 11. Then there's this explanation of overlay icons in The Windows Club, which didn't really help me either. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the registry entry for the icon overlays described in the post was not available in the registry. Found a fix and a solutionĪt first I thought of my old GErman blog post Verknüpfungssymbole fehlerhaft mit Icon überlagert from 2010 and other posts (see links at the end of the article) and searched for it in the blog. So I went in search of the cause and a solution. It couldn't really have anything to do with a search. Below I have put together an illustration of this effect on various desktop icons.Īt that moment, I had no idea what had triggered this effect and what the superimposed magnifying glass symbol was supposed to do. I didn't notice it at first, but suddenly all the desktop icons of my installation of Windows 10 v1909 (is an LTSC variant) were overlaid with the symbol of a magnifying glass. Desktop icons overlaid with magnifying glass ![]()
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