My icons on my desktop stay permanantly highlighted for some reason. I ran spybot, NAV, Adware, and Pest Patrol and cleaned up a few spyware and adware programs, but nothing seems to help out the icon situation. Here is a picture if you want to see what it looks like- http://pspdownloadguide.com/images/myscreen.gif
When i was on the net i clicked save web page as to see what would happen. Now all my icons on my desktop look like they are highlighted when they are not.
My desktop looks like this (sorry for the large image) and I don't want the text on my icons to be highlighted. I can't seem to get rid of them, though. The color corresponds to the color of the desktop behind the wallpaper
I was trying to move a jpeg to the desktop and after closing open IE I noticed all my desktop icons were highlighted, I have tried backtracking without any success.
Can anyone explain why my icons look like this, the way the text is highlighted.I did a system restore and was fine but soon came back within minutes. Not a big problem more annoying.<A HREF="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/thebaldebayer/icons.jpg">Screenshot here</A>
I am not sure what I did but the text on my desktop icons is suddenly highlighted and despite trying several things I can't make it go away! All I have managed to do is change the color a few times. I googled this problem and tried the several 'solutions' that I found but none of them worked. Can anyone help me solve this annoying problem?
When I close a program the desktop icon remains highlighted, until I mouse click elsewhere on the desktop. This only presents a real problem when I log off of my dial up server and the icon remains highlighted. If I forget to un-highlight it, my phone won't ring, although my answering machine will pick up the call.
I've deleted an icon for a folder on my Windows XP Professional desktop at least 10 times, probably more over the last year. It re-appears at random and is empty. I tried deleting it from Command, but it said the folder didn't exist, however "dir" said it did. I'm really lost here as to how to make this icon go away.
I was wondering if there was a way to permanently ensure you never see the balloon that tells you that there are "unused icons on your desktop". I'm assuming it's some sort of registry hack.
I was playing with services but this seems to be affecting both of my hardware profiles... It wasn't happening last night, it was only today. I have restarted several times, tried different profiles and different user accounts and all icons are still like this
Yesterday I cleaned a computer using (cleanup.exe)I also uninstalled McAfee and installed Avast! Now all of the sudden when I boot up all of the icons are highlighted and my desktop wallpaper is cut in half, also the icons don't work when you click them
I am getting annoyed. My fonts have been highlighted for so long. And its not because I changed the theme, its always like this, even on the regular XP theme.. Is there anyway I can fix this?
In Explorer, when right clicking and dragging to a destination folder, is there a way to keep the destination folder highlighted when you release the button and then make your selection from the menu?
All of a sudden my WinXP Pro is highlighting multi files to be opened. If if click lower on the screen all files above are highlighted. How do I stop this from happening?
the program is saying that hide the file or show the hidden file which do I want? Show hidden or dont show hidden. The do not show is highlighted.Which is the right way?
Sometimes when cutting and pasting text from a web page, the "smart" highlighting grabs stuff I don't want it to grab. For Example:start here 'and select this text'but not this Using your mouse, start at the "a" in "and" on the previous line. Click and hold to start text highlighting, then move the mouse to the end of the word text.
system is set to automatically delete cookies. There's a couple of cookies I would like to keep permanently short of manual selective deletion, is there a way to protect them from deletion ?
IE7 - Is there anyway to permanently get rid of the yellow "Internet Explorer is currently running with add-ons disabled" bar under the status bar at the top of the screen? I don't want to just disable "add-ons" - I want to get rid of that bar so it will stop reminding me.
I want a way to keep num lock active, even if I press the key. I use it for macros in one program, and different macros in another using the number pad in another.
I have a folder that I deleated and is now in my trash bin. The problem that I am having is that when I try to perminantly delete it from there, I get a message that it can not be found and it won't be remove from the trash bin. I would like to get it out of there because the trash bin stops emptying eevrytime it gets to that folder.
When I click on a program it highlights several prrograms at once. If I click on a lower program on the screen all programs above are highlighted. same thing happens in email.
freshly installed xp back onto my computer and after using the newly installed programs they still remain highlighted under the start list. not really a problem just annoying to see it all the time. anybody have a quick fix to this one
I have setup a second hard drive for data storage only (no OS) and have allocated all availables space under a single extended partition to make future expansion as painless as possible. I have divided the extended partition into three logical partitons, whose volume labels are now highlighted in blue in My Computer. The same happens to all files and folders that are now stored in these logical partitions.
My brother and I tried plugging in my mp3 player I've got this "safely remove hardware" icon in my system tray. I think we mite have plugged it into the 1394 port (what's a 1394 port for?). Anyway, it shows four external hard drives (I have 4 USB outlets on my computer. Right now I am using only one of the USB ports for my printer which works fine at bootup and after I use the "safely remove hardware" icon. So why is it there, how do I get rid of it so it doesn't come up every time WinXP starts?
I'm running XP-SP3 and have followed every suggestion I've found in a web search to permanently remove "my pictures, "my music," etc. And they seem to work...until I reboot when they reappear in full force! Can you tell me how I can remove these horrible irritants once and for all?
I just recently deleted a folder that i wasn't supposed to delete inside my EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. Inside that folder were 2 other very important sub folders. It was over 8 gigs so when i deleted it, i unfortunately commited the same mistake of pressing the "yes" button again when it asked the files to bypass the recycling bin being permanently deleted from the computer. In fact it happened so fast it seemed like it vaporized. It was hard to believe that over 8 gigs of files were eliminated that fast, whereas usually any big file i would delete would normally take a while for the computer to process