desktop rectangle icon

is there a way to remove the square thing on this?

Brink said:

Hello Rose,

See if refreshing (F5) your desktop may sort it. :)

No it doesn't.

Brink said:

Does it stay like that after restarting the computer or logging out and in?

If so, you might see if changing the icon of that shortcut to a different or same icon a couple of time may sort it.

Shortcut - Change Icon

All the icons are like that on the desktop.

Rose1 said:

is there a way to remove the square thing on this?

This is an artifact of being able to operate the desktop by keyboard. It happens for me every so often. To get rid of it, I hit Ctrl-Esc to bring up the start menu, cursor down (no mouse!) to some program or other, hit Enter to launch it. Usually, after I close that program, the rectangle goes away - what you've done is taken keyboard focus away from that desktop item. Then, a few days later it pops up again - I can't figure out what triggers it.

It is a long-standing bug, and nobody seems to want to do anything about it. It happens in Windows post-7 as well.

sgage said:

Rose1 said:

is there a way to remove the square thing on this?

This is an artifact of being able to operate the desktop by keyboard. It happens for me every so often. To get rid of it, I hit Ctrl-Esc to bring up the start menu, cursor down (no mouse!) to some program or other, hit Enter to launch it. Usually, after I close that program, the rectangle goes away - what you've done is taken keyboard focus away from that desktop item. Then, a few days later it pops up again - I can't figure out what triggers it.

It is a long-standing bug, and nobody seems to want to do anything about it. It happens in Windows post-7 as well.

My happened after I did the system restore.

Brink said:

If what sgage posted doesn't help, then see if changing the size of the desktop icons to another size and back may toggle it to stop.

If not, then let's see if rebuilding the icon cache may.

rebuilding the icon cache looks risky to me.