Windows 10: Fix desktop Highlighter back to blue in Windows 10

Fix desktop Highlighter back to blue in Windows 10

Original title: desktop Highlighter

when you click and drag across your desktop and a blue highlighter comes up that you can adjust and highlight desktop icons, I need to know why mine has a white dotted edge and is clear instead of blue can anyone tell me the name of this highlighter and how to fix it and put it back to blue on windows 10 without doing any restarting

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Fix desktop Highlighter back to blue in Windows 10

Original title: desktop Highlighter

when you click and drag across your desktop and a blue highlighter comes up that you can adjust and highlight desktop icons, I need to know why mine has a white dotted edge and is clear instead of blue can anyone tell me the name of this highlighter and
how to fix it and put it back to blue on windows 10 without doing any restarting

 

Fix desktop Highlighter back to blue in Windows 10

Hi Jordan,



I suggest you to follow the below methods and check if it helps.

Method 1: Try the SFC scan to resolve the issue. SFC scans the corrupted files and recover it automatically. SFC scans the corrupted files and recover it automatically.

• 
  Left click on Start button.
  
• 
  Right click on Command Prompt (Admin) option which will let you run
  'Run as administrator’.
  
• 
  Command Prompt Window pops up.
  
• 
  Type: SFC /SCANNOW and hit
  Enter.
  

You can also follow the link below for reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833



Method 2: Try the following steps to run
DISM scan to check and restore system file corruption:

• 
  Open command prompt by pressing Windows key + X and selecting “Command prompt admin”.
  
• 
  In command prompt, type the following commands and press Enter after each command:
  
  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
  
  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
  

Hope it helps.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.