Comments on: The Overlay Icons in Windows 11/10 explained

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 27 May 2016 12:35:00 +0000

In Windows 10, there are new overlay icons, such as the two blue arrows pointing at each other, denoting that the drive where the file is, is using compression. You may want to include this in your article to make it more up-to-date.

By: Richard Cleaveland

Richard Cleaveland — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:08:00 +0000

I have an overlay icon on some Access files. It’s a square in the upper-left corner with what looks to me like a key at a diagonal inside the square.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:02:00 +0000

@tuxplorer Classic Shell doesn’t undo any damage, it just brings different kind of crap, i.e. giving you a 16+ year old start menu design. Also, the shared items overlay function doesn’t work, so meh, classic shell is waste of time.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:20:38 +0000

Those little padlocks started showing up after I installed and started using TeraCopy on Win 7 64bit. Not sure why it waited until then unless these overlay icons came with a Windows Update at the same time I installed TeraCopy.

By: tuxplorer

tuxplorer — Sun, 23 May 2010 18:07:24 +0000

And if you want you can get back the overlay for shared items by installing Classic Shell, the best shell extension for Windows Explorer that undoes 50% of the damage done to the shell and Explorer by the Windows team since Vista.