Windows 11 Support Thread

airborne said:
The option to disable the pen icon is greyed out.
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So greyed out but in the ON position? ... that was either done via script or in GPO

Try the reg files ...

www.elevenforum.com

Show or Hide Pen Menu icon on Taskbar in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to show or hide the pen menu icon on the taskbar system tray for your account in Windows 11. The pen menu in Windows 11 makes it easy for you to access your favorite apps. If you have a pen, tap it on your screen. The pen menu will appear in the corner of your...
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Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
So greyed out but in the ON position? ... that was either done via script or in GPO

Try the reg files ...

www.elevenforum.com

Show or Hide Pen Menu icon on Taskbar in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to show or hide the pen menu icon on the taskbar system tray for your account in Windows 11. The pen menu in Windows 11 makes it easy for you to access your favorite apps. If you have a pen, tap it on your screen. The pen menu will appear in the corner of your...
www.elevenforum.com www.elevenforum.com
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Thanks @Dimpie (COMPUTEK) the Hide pen icon reg file did the trick :)
 
Stickfigure said:
At work yes but at home no (hence me trying.) Just a bog standard internet connection at home.

Edit: Was using FF, just tried Edge and it's working. MS clearly want me to switch lol.
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If you maybe have Windscribe as a plugin on ff I find it sometimes activates itself if you don't have it on...
 
Does anyone know what these "box" looking icons are at the bottom left of my desktop icons are? Sometimes there's green ticks in place of the box icon. I'm not sure what the purpose of it is.

I have Bitdefender Internet Security, so not sure if it might be Bitdefender adding these checkmarks, or if it's a Windows thing?

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genetic said:
Does anyone know what these "box" looking icons are at the bottom left of my desktop icons are? Sometimes there's green ticks in place of the box icon. I'm not sure what the purpose of it is.

I have Bitdefender Internet Security, so not sure if it might be Bitdefender adding these checkmarks, or if it's a Windows thing?

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Do you have onedrive?
 
genetic said:
Does anyone know what these "box" looking icons are at the bottom left of my desktop icons are? Sometimes there's green ticks in place of the box icon. I'm not sure what the purpose of it is.

I have Bitdefender Internet Security, so not sure if it might be Bitdefender adding these checkmarks, or if it's a Windows thing?

View attachment 1819401
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Never seen that before.
 
RunningFromFat said:
Do you have onedrive?
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Well with more digging and research, it seems it has do do with OneDrive. The box icon means that files are available locally, and the green tick means that the files have been backed up.

I most certainly do NOT wont OneDrive on my machine. I never had it, and blocked it from being a startup app in Win11, but Microsoft got sneaky and re-enabled it I'm guessing. I'll just uninstall it completely.
 
genetic said:
Well with more digging and research, it seems it has do do with OneDrive. The box icon means that files are available locally, and the green tick means that the files have been backed up.

I most certainly do NOT wont OneDrive on my machine. I never had it, and blocked it from being a startup app in Win11, but Microsoft got sneaky and re-enabled it I'm guessing. I'll just uninstall it completely.
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They often reinstall it when they release major updates, cnts.
 
genetic said:
Well with more digging and research, it seems it has do do with OneDrive. The box icon means that files are available locally, and the green tick means that the files have been backed up.

I most certainly do NOT wont OneDrive on my machine. I never had it, and blocked it from being a startup app in Win11, but Microsoft got sneaky and re-enabled it I'm guessing. I'll just uninstall it completely.
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I use OneDrive extensively and I've never seen anything resembling those icons.
 
deesef said:
I use OneDrive extensively and I've never seen anything resembling those icons.
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It's definitely OneDrive. It's their icons;

What do the OneDrive icons mean? - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com

I disabled OneDrive when I set up my PC a few years ago - you can't uninstall it. It's part of Win 11 now, but I disabled syncing and disabled it from starting with Windows, but this cockroach is still crawling through after updates I guess.

OneDrive disabled in Task Manager;
Screenshot 2025-05-10 234130.png

OneDrive syncing turned off in Windows settings;
Screenshot 2025-05-10 234215.png

So not sure how to disable it even more?
 
So I've disabled App List Backup and Preferences backup in OneDrive settings too, but the icons are still there. The icons come and go.

Screenshot 2025-05-10 234743.png

I need to do more digging...
 
Update! Icons gone!

So I uninstalled OneDrive, However you can't uninstall it from the normal Control Panel -> Programs or Features page. The app doesn't exist there. You have to go into the new Settings page from the search bar and delete the app from the Apps tab there. WTF Microsoft??
 
genetic said:
Update! Icons gone!

So I uninstalled OneDrive, However you can't uninstall it from the normal Control Panel -> Programs or Features page. The app doesn't exist there. You have to go into the new Settings page from the search bar and delete the app from the Apps tab there. WTF Microsoft??
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You didn't know that? 😲 You need to get used to the setting page .... Control panel is gonna fall away sometime in the future.
The app section on the settings page have been coming along since W10 days
 
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