Unwanted badges on disk drive icons

[Microsoft Windows]

Hello!I've recently discovered that when I open My Computer (or Explorer sidebar) disk drive icons now have these badges attached to them (green shield with checkmark inside and some half-filled bar near it). What is it, and how do I get rid of them? I've had some problems with one of my hard drives, so I installed various programs to check it's state, including:HDD LifeCrystal Disk Mark and Crustal Disk InfoWD Drive UtilitiesWestern Digital DashboardI've removed them all, but it seems like one of them installed these badges? If that's indeed the case, how do I disable them?

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