Windows 10: Couple of Q's from a W10 newie

My bad. *Redface

I see this in XP:




I see this in W7:

 

God I love these forums. Better than TV!
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I don't have any "rotten rectangles". Here's what I get if I click once on an icon on the desktop (see the Recycle Bin icon):





The faint "haze" disappears after I double-click on the icon, when the file then opens.

 

Hi there.

I think the translucent square around desktop icon when your mouse hovers over it is pretty standard on OS'es these days -- same in Linux. It's only there while the mouse has focus.

If you don't like those simply move the desktop icons to the taskbar and run from the task bar. You will still get a translucent box around an executing application that's active such as file download from IE when your mouse hovers over the task bar.

Cheers
jimbo

 

In my setup (standard, I don't remember making any setting on this), after single clicking on a desktop icon, the hazy rectangle remains when I move the mouse elsewhere on the desktop (without any further clicking).

 

We have to remember that from Windows 7 the OS has been Optimised for touch - This is visible in the default Icon size and the use of transparency to indicate selections on the desktop - It's here to stay so you may as well get used to it.

We've travelled long way from the awful Luna interface on windows 6.1, (AKA XP), but at least you could turn it off, (though I expect Walt Disney still got royalties)