Comments on: Remove That Unsightly Focus Rectangle in Windows XP or Vista

By: Leave the Rectangle!

Leave the Rectangle! — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:35:25 +0000

sorry for being a little annoying, but I think only “moused people” don’t know the meaning of this rectangle…
let’s say you just got out of batteries on your wireless mouse and now you don’t have any other point and click device (like touchpad, etc)
now you need to copy some files from your desktop
you’d do this way:

1) hold control key (for all steps)
2) press space to select an item surrounded by the rectangle
3) press arrow keys to go to other items
4) press space on any other items you want to select
5) finally, you can use the menu key (between right-alt and right ctrl) to open context menu (copy, paste, send to, etc).

Now tell me… HOW WILL YOU SELECT FILES IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE THE CURSOR IS (or in other words, if you don’t have the rectangle)???????????

idiots

By: Win7

Win7 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:31:05 +0000

Worked charmingly in windows 7! I have 32 bit and win7 build 7100. You need to restart it (if you just log off and log in it will not load your desktop properly!!)

Thank you thank you thank you!! Now i can winflip to desktop without that box XD

By: Alb

Alb — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:43:11 +0000

i want to say a big thank you for this dll. it was my dream to find such a program

of course, selection of files in windows explorer is not so customary now, but nevertheless it is much more better than earlier. at last i got rid of this idiotic outline in foo-bar !

By: steelew

steelew — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:47:53 +0000

Didn’t work on Vista 32 bit SP2.

By: Nike

Nike — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:24:24 +0000

@PjhN
Maybe i was a little bit unclear. Take a look at the image below and you’ll see what i meant.
http://blubbz.com/host/images/6.png

When i took that screenshot i was dragging the mouse over one of those icons on the image and as you can see one of the icons are selected, but i can’t see the “selection rectangle”… I didn’t let go of the mouse when i took the screenshot so the selection rectangle should be visible.

And yes i’ve tried uninstalling and re-installing it again, but it makes no difference.

In the comment above you said that you’re running Win 7, is it working? I used Vista before and i know i tried this “hack” out, but since Vista doesn’t have the same selection rectangle as on XP (Vista has a blue transparent color one while XP only has “white dots” around the selection) it worked great.

And since Win 7 is pretty much like a newer & fresher Vista with just a few new features i think it’ll work just like on Vista… I’ve tried Win 7 but it was in January when it had just got out, and i just tried it on a laggy Virtual Machine so i didn’t really get a chance to install or do anything on it because it was too slow

Btw thnx for the respond.

By: PjhN

PjhN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:11:40 +0000

@Mike Glad you got it working in Vista. I’ve just in Windows 7 x64 and it’s not having an effect here either. I guess we’ll have to wait for a Win 7 updated version.

@Nike That’s odd, never had that side effect. Have you tried uninstalling to see if it returns? Otherwise I can’t suggest anything much helpful. Soz!

By: Nike

Nike — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:21:38 +0000

Thanks, it’s working great. But there is one negative thing about this, after registering the file i can’t see the selection rectangle on the desktop (i cant see which files i select…), and that kind of sucks.

Else than that it works great, but is there a way to fix that?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:21:06 +0000

@PjhN: Thanks! It worked for Vista x64 for now, still I need a way to get it to work with Windows 7 (Both 32 and 64-bit).

Thanks again.

By: PjhN

PjhN — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:02:53 +0000

@Mike: See my comment above. Definitely DOES work on Vista x64.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:33:09 +0000

This is great and works in Vista (32-bit only).

But I was wondering if there is a way to get it to work in Windows 7, it’s not working at all there.