Vista - Gray Forward Slash???

Fired up my x64 Vista Home Premium this morning and found something odd....Gray forward slash marks on document icons. Cannot interact with them, nor can i find any information about what they might be?!? Anyone?

RMHG

Hi and welcome to vistaX

Just a friendly note cause you are new.. Double posts aren't allowed. No problem Just wanted to let you know

again welcome

Ken

Hi RMHG and welcome to Vista Forums

By not being able to interact with them, do you mean that you cannot move the icons on the desktop and that if you click or double-click them that the relevant document does not open?

Sorry about the double post...(Newbish of me)

Cannot interact...meaning that a left or right click on the slash produces no apparent result. The only thing I've done different in the past few days was to install Norton 360, but I can find no information from Norton about the slash marks...Weird

A double click on the icon opens the document as normal, so nothing has changed there.

Hi RMHG,

I've had a look at your attached image, and the gray slash occupies the same position on the icons as the normal shortcut arrow. This indicates that it is some form of icon overlay.

Checking with Google, I've managed to come up with this from Norton 360 3.0 - Computer Shopper It would appear that this overlay has got something to do with the backup function of Norton 360.

Referring to the above image, what information do you get if you click the question mark next to Use Icon Overlays?

Ah Ha!

Thanks for the research and reply! Been scratching my head over this all morning!

So does it mention anything about this gray slash?