Weird Taskbar icon

I just logged on today and I just see this lock on the taskbar. Ive never seen this before and im very confused. I can't press it or anything it's just kinda there. Can anyone help?

That looks to me like Search highlights.
There are tutorials about how to turn them off.
Enable or Disable Search Highlights - ElevenForumTutorials
Enable or Disable Search Highlights - TenForumsTutorials


All the best,
Denis

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Welcome to ElevenForum.

It's really worth making time to browse through the Tutorial index - there's a shortcut to it at the top of every page [within the Tutorials dropdown list].
- At the foot of the Tutorial index is a shortcut to download it as a spreadsheet.
- I download a new copy each month.
- By downloading it as a spreadsheet I can benefit from Excel's excellent filtering capabilities when I search for topics of interest.
- Tutorials are also listed at Tutorials - there's a shortcut to that at the top of every page.

You can search ElevenForum using the search box in the top-right corner of all ElevenForum webpages or using Advanced Search - ElevenForum
- You can also search ElevenForum threads in many general search engines, such as Google, by adding site:elevenforum.com after your search term. For example,
Taskbar setup site:elevenforum.com
- [This is what the search box in the top-right corner of ElevenForum webpages does automatically]

Since your OS is Windows 10 try asking on Ten Forums - Windows 10 Help and Support Forum . You may get more answers.

Well spotted.
I've added a link to the TenForums tutorial in my previous post.

Denis

Two of my three machines show the search highlights on the taskbar. On the one that doesn't, there is no option to show it in settings. That machine is an old AIO running Win10 build 19045.3031. Windows is sometimes odd.