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Well, i really don't like that border.
It does in fact only appear sometimes, and thats what pisses me off.
Has someone bothered checking the registry for this? I'm gonna have a look later today
Well, i really don't like that border.
It does in fact only appear sometimes, and thats what pisses me off.
Has someone bothered checking the registry for this? I'm gonna have a look later today
If navigating the desktop with the keyboard switches it on, then what I'm after is a means to turn it off again. Hitting refresh doesn't do this, except briefly, since the box returns once more when the desktop is clicked on with the mouse - which i think you'll agree is definitely not keyboard navigation!Just hit refresh on the desktop, that square will go away. It shows up when you start navigating the desktop with the keyboard.
There may be a way to turn this function on - but the off button seems to be elusive or at the whim of some inattentive/malaevolent pixie hiding in the code somewhere. That can't be right.
Where's the bloody off switch?
Weird. It get's rid of it for me.
Well inexplicably it re-appeared after a day or two. I had to restart because of some updates and it wasn't there on reboot.
There has to be a better way to get rid of it than restarting your computer though. Clearly some people are saying it goes away on refresh or re-sizing their icons, some people it disappears for by itself and some people it's never going away for.
It's a damn arbitrary function, whatever the case. Also a (minor) annoyance. Until someone finds a sure-fire way to switch it off that works for everyone (without rebooting) I guess it'll remain that way.
Thanks everyone.
Hiya, I'm just wondering if there's been any updates that never got posted. Anyone find a fix for this?? I just installed Windows 7 today and I noticed the 'thing' appear around my desktop icons. It really cheapens the look of W7 so I wish I could make it disappear.
I did two things right before it started doing that...I adjusted the icon size on the desktop, and I was also playing around with the onscreen keyboard/writing tablet, right before I noticed the 'thing' but I'm not sure that's what caused it.
Please let me know! Thanks!
This is a Windows 7 bug it's more frequent in 64 bit that 32 bit it appears some time after being logged in, this selection box is redundant. In Vista this dotted box appeared in explorer Windows but not in desktop now the bug has been moved to desktop. But you have to remember that this is a Microsoft OS don't hope them to fix it (i.e.: the luna silver style in Windows XP, inactive close buttons were shown as pressed and the startmenu button had a shown alpha channel pixel, a pink dot). Another bug like this is the corner of the weather gadget when the day is sunny it shows as diagonal instead of round. That's one of the main differences between Apple and MS (each has it's pros and it's cons).
Last edited by Fjtorsol; 17 Dec 2009 at 07:02.
The focus box appears when the desktop's icon size is adjusted. I noticed it appeared after adjusting the desktop's icon size by clicking on a clear spot on the desktop and then holding the control key while scrolling the mouse scroll wheel. This increases and decreases the size of the desktop icons. After reading another post explaining this and actually doing it, the box appeared and I have not been able to turn it off.
I found this post after searching for some way to turn it off and thought it might help us all find a solution if I posted how I actually activated it.
For now, the only solution I see is to turn off all desktop icons. Right click a clear spot on the desktop, click view, then uncheck "show desktop icons." I have the recycle bin and all the program icons I use either on the quick launch bar or on the taskbar and have turned off all desktop icons.
Sorry, I couldn't be much help; but hopefully someone else will come along and explain how to turn the stupid focus box off.