How to remove red x on desktop icons windows 11 home
You may have a question: How to remove red x on desktop icons windows 11 home, and found on the Internet many websites informing you of a method to solve this question. Some describe 4 methods, some 5 methods, and some other tricks. But what is the exact reason I am going to write in this article? All others did not work in my case.
I bought 2-3 months ago a new HP laptop because my old laptop was little slow when I was executing any task on laptop. The price of this HP laptop was approximately 500 euros. You can look for one for you from our collections.
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Speed of the Laptop to execute the task was satisfactory, so I was happy. But, one day I found that I am unable to see glimpses of my photos or folders because it makes it easy to find my photos or files by opening them. We call this "thumbnail". A thumbnail is a small image representation of a large photo or folder.
Not only this, I found a Red X with each icon, photo, and folder of my laptop as you can see in the following image.
I took this large picture to clarify the situation.
Exactly what we have to do to solve this issue?
When we set up our laptop, at some stage the window asks us to write our "Hotmail" email account id and password. We write it. During this, in a hurry, we agreed to link "One Drive" with our laptop to synchronize the files, photos etc.
One Drive is an online storage space linked with Hotmail where you can store your photos and files. Since this is stored on Microsoft server, you can open and download your photos and files anywhere using your Hotmail account id and email. It is similar to Google Drive which you can find in your Android mobile phone.
Now we come to the question: what to do? You have to unlink your OneDrive from your laptop and this will remove Red X and also you will see thumbnails of each photo and file.
Let's start step by step.
Windows 11 home is installed in my laptop but most laptops and PCs have very similar settings, so you have to understand the steps and this will make it easy to find the solution.
Step 1. Click on Start icon as you can see in the following image.
Step 4. Click on OneDrive. Now you will see several options.
Step 5. Click on Open in the options.
Step 6. Click on image of Cloud as you can see in the following photo. I put my Cursor on a cloud image.
Step 7. Click on Settings.
Step 8. Click on Account.
Step 9. Click on "Unlink this PC". This will unlink your PC or laptop from OneDrive. On unlinking your photos and files of your PC or laptop will not get synchronized automatically with online server of storage i.e. OneDrive.
Step 10. Now you will see there are few changes automatically happening in your PC or laptop. Maybe you don't find the "Pictures" folder on the left side. So you have to click on "Desktop", then you will see an option Pictures.
Step 11. Click on Pictures. You will find the Red X are removed. You can see the thumbnails of your photos and files which make it easy for you to select the images and files.
Reason for appearing Red X and no appearing thumbnail.
This happens due to OneDrive storage capacity.
Since my OneDrive was already full with photos and files, it did not have a space to synchronize new photos and files stored in my PC or laptop, and this created an error which was appearing as Red X with each file and photo.
Even when you investigate about file or photo properties, you will find it is written "Error"
My problem is already solved following these steps. Hopefully, your problem is also solved, Now I need a break and to support me you can buy a coffee ☕ for me. You can use QR code for buying. It's very easy.
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