Windows 10: Hide or show translucent selection rectangle in Windows 10

When you select an area on your Windows desktop, the space gets highlighted with a semi-transparent blue color. On other occasions, the Desktop appears, completely transparent with a dotted outline marking its borders. In this post, we will show you [...]

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Turn On or Off Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop in Visual Effects Performance Options

How to Turn On or Off Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop in Windows


The translucent selection rectangle is the box you see when you left click and hold, and then drag the pointer over items to select them when you release the left click.

If you like, you can turn off showing the translucent selection rectangle on your desktop.

When the translucent selection rectangle is turned off for the desktop, you will only see an outline selection rectangle on the desktop instead.

*note This will not affect showing the translucent selection rectangle in File Explorer.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing the translucent selection rectangle on the desktop for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Turn On or Off Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop in Visual Effects Performance Options
• Option Two: Turn On or Off Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop using a REG file

EXAMPLE: "Show translucent selection rectangle" On and Off for desktop













OPTION ONE

Turn On or Off Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop in Visual Effects Performance Options
1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe into Run, click/tap on OK to directly open the Visual Effects tab in Performance Options.

2. Check (on - default) or uncheck (off) Show translucent selection rectangle for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)











OPTION TWO

Turn On or Off Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

ListviewAlphaSelect DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On


1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Show Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_ON_Show_translucent_selection_rectangle.reg





3. To Turn Off Show Translucent Selection Rectangle on Desktop
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_OFF_Show_translucent_selection_rectangle.reg




4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. restart the computer to apply.

8. You could now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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Still no way to disable "Show Translucent Selection Rectangle"?

Hello risug,

You could still use an option in the tutorial below to turn on or off "Show Translucent Selection Rectangle", but it doesn't affect it in File Explorer.

*Arrow Show Translucent Selection Rectangle - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Selection Rectangle Wierdness

Hi Parker,



Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting. We appreciate your interest in Windows 10.



As per description I understand that you have an issue in setting Performance options on Windows 10.



I would like to inform that when you choose “Let Windows choose what's best for my computer” option as the name says, the system will only choose the default settings on to your computer.

Either you select “Show translucent selection rectangle” option or not does not make any changes.

I suggest you to choose only “Show translucent selection rectangle” and not “Let Windows choose what's best for my computer option”.





Hope it helps. Feel free to contact us for any further queries on Windows Operating System.