Windows 10: Windows Explorer, Wordpad and Paint missing black border when in focus

My Windows Explorer, Wordpad and Paint all seem to be missing a black border when the window is in focus. I am running 20H2. Is this happening to anyone else?

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Hi Adele,

For us to isolate your concern with the black border on your computer, we would like to know the following:

• When did this happen?
• Were there any updates made on your computer prior to this concern?
• To make sure we have not missed on anything, what troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• Send us a screenshot of the black border.

We look forward to your response.

 

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I only turned my pc on. then plugged in my Clickfree to backup my files. Have no idea if there were updates.

 

The Windows explorer borders are missing (white) on the window in focus (Win10)

With a specific setup in Windows 10 you may end up with the Explorer window
in focus appearing as if it has no border.





The border is actually not missing (you can see that on the coloured areas on the image above), but the Windows Explorer border colour changes to
white when you set focus to it, and then it very often looks as if there was no border at all, since other windows (below) often tend to have a white background. White on white is not a good combination.

This happens if you have turned off all visual effects, including shadows (to get a faster and/or cleaner interface).

I consider this a design flaw. Setting focus to an Explorer window should never, or at least not by default, make the outer borders of that window disappear (turn white).

To get a visible border (as it was in older versions of windows), you can of turn on shadows effects, or if you want no "effects", even
simpler: you can turn on accent colours for "Title bars and window borders", and select an accent colour. I selected "dark teal" in the screen-shot below.

If you make the second choice above, I say Windows looks better when you also turn on accent colour for "Start, task bar and action center" (the other checkbox).





I'm adding this information along with screen shots, to inform other Windows 10 users in a hopefully simple way, how the problem can be dealt with, while waiting for a better default behaviour when visual effects are turned off.