Windows 10: White box in upper left hand corner of desktop.

Hi,

I recently purchased a new Dell laptop for my kid and put some Microsoft Family time limits on it. My son has kept on coming to me and showing me a white bar at the top left corner of the desktop. The bar will hide all of the apps until clicked on twice. One clicked on, it will stay there but will show all of the desktop apps. When I press the Windows key, the box enlarges, but there is no text. I hope someone can help me with this soon. Thanks :!

This picture is just on the desktop

This picture is when I press the windows key.

This is when I double click the bar.

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Rectangular Box in Upper Left Corner

Howdy Bree,
I don't see a magnifier glass in the upper left corner. Just to make sure I was not overlooking it, I changed my "Change the size of text, apps, and other items: 125%." Then I went to the High Contrast area "Choose a theme: High Contrast White". Even after those two steps I still don't see a magnifier glass. I selected The Magnifier from my taskbar and indeed I saw the magnifier glass. When I used the magnifier glass, the recently generated magnifying area was deleted - but the area in the upper left corner remained.
Is it possible to remove The Magnifier from Windows and then reinstall it? Or perhaps, a larger section of Windows containing The Magnifier and then reinstall this larger section?
Thank you.

Carl M. Barlow, Jr.
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Howdy Bree,
Did you take a Thanksgiving vacation?

Carl

 

Rectangular Box in Upper Left Corner

@NurdBurd, I've just turned on Magnifier (1607 rtm) to see what you mean. Somewhere on the screen you should also find a 'magnifying glass' icon. Click on it and it will briefly become the control window for Magnifier.





After clicking on the magnifying glass, close it from here:

 

Excel desktop icon with white X in left hand corner

Hi there,

I have an Excel file on my desktop which now has a white X in the left hand corner.

Can't open it either - any help out there?

Thanks in advance.