Little shields in the program shortcuts

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Thomas

At some point, I am not sure when, I noticed that most of my programs (but
not all) have started appearing with little security center badges in the
icon. I don't see that they are running differently. I thought it might have
to do something with the windows firewall. I noticed that I had pc-cillin's
firewall and windows firewall running at the same time, so I disabled the
windows firewall. I don't know if the firewall has anything to do with it. I
am however curious as to what purpose they serve.


Any ideas?
 
did you downoad the files from the internet or put them on the pc from
another PC? that could be why. it did something like that in xp sp2 but it
was just very simple. i think that there is a way or will be a way to get
rid of the shield thing in vista. microsoft is just getting so uptight about
security.
 
Programs requiring Admin rights (UAC prompt or Run as Administrator) will
show a shield. That may account for some of them.
 
interesting. i had an application that needed administrator rights but it
did not have a shield.
 
Is the UAC shield not identifying common installation files rather than
standard executables for example MSI files or compressed installs....?

<DIV>&quot;Steven Wabik&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote in message
 
I turned off the firewall while troubleshooting an error that turned out to
be in my router. During that time, I noticed that all the icons in my Games
folder had the shields next to them.
 
MS is looking for those so be sure to report it via the Feedback link on
your desktop.
 
I deleted the feedback icon on another user's desktop, which (of course!)
deleted it from MY desktop, as well -- grrrr....

How do I get it back, and on *ONE* desktop, not all?
 
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