Since today, all of the sudden all my music files (in Tiles View) have this little icon overlay. It’s on every music file in every folder and it’s annoying as hell.
I haven’t changed any of my folder setting and I don’t know what could’ve caused this. does anyone know how to restore it to its original state with no icons?
I’m tired of all these motherfucking icons on my motherfucking music files!
oh hai! I just had this issue too. Try installing “UltimateWindowsTweaker” and then tell it to turn off the overlay arrow.
Well, after rebooting the icon changed to a small Winamp icon in the lower left corner. But they never had any icons on them before, it defeats the whole purpose of having music files with album art.
Does anyone know how to revert the Tiles view so they have no icons anymore?
Catz, that’s only for the shortcut arrow, not regular icons. But thanks anyway 
I got nuthin then. My problem was trying to figure out the official word for what it represented. Once I figured out it was the “overlay arrow” I was able to google it and fix it. Is it a sort/view kinda thing?
EDIT: Is this music waiting to be written to cd?
Here is a list of overlay icons that come with Windows 7.
Small arrow: This is the shortcut overlay.
Lock icon: This means that you have a private item in a non-private directory. This indicates that it is a file or folder with special permissions & that the user is restricted from performing some operations on that file or folder.
Downward pointing blue arrow: This is the “to be written to CD” overlay.
Pair of green swirly arrows: This means that the item is available offline.
Gray X: This means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.
Shield: This means that the program requires elevation to run and that a UAC prompt may appear.
It looks to me like Windows thinks your files are on a network drive.
Maybe there’s a registry key that’s corrupt (?).
Is the file on a flash drive or something? or is it actually on your hard drive?
Try disable Windows media player network sharing?
(That might fix the network icon on audio files, as for catz other thread, no idea)
The files are all on my HDD (both internal and external), and like I said, they’ve now changed to the Winamp icon in the lower right corner.
Still, it used to be icon-free, and I have no idea why it changed all of the sudden.
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