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eriqesque · #1 Post by **eriqesque** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:46 am

all of a sudden
my trash icon and everything i select (left click) there is a dtted box surrounding it. What causes this?

*Edit*
Did a little research and I guess it's called a marquee surrounding the icons and the selected items.

How can this be turned off?

Kenn · #2 Post by **Kenn** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:16 pm

How was it before? If you didn't have a marquee around the text how could you tell it was selected?

eriqesque · #3 Post by **eriqesque** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:28 pm

I was just able to select it with no marquee.
I fixed it.
Wasn't easy but I deleted my user acct in XP and then restored all my stuff and now it's back the way it was.

Some websites it still shows but that is okay
I know when something is selectable by the cursor changes from what I have it set to into the little windows select hand.
Plus somethings appear highlighted.

Humpa · #4 Post by **Humpa** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:03 pm

eriqesque, I see what you are talking about. On my home pc (XP Pro) there is a marquee around any desktop icon I select, and the icon is highlighted by the Selected Item color I have set. If I then click on an empty area of the desktop, the marquee stays around that last icon selected.
On my T42, there was no marquee - just the highlight color. But, after screwing around with the Selected Items color (Display Properties > Appearance > Advanced), I now have the dotted-line marquee on my T42 also. I created a new user account, and the new account does not have the marquee. I can't get rid of the marquee on my original user account though. Also, I don't know what I did that caused the marquee to start appearing, but I can't recreate it on the new user account!
DOH!

Man, I really have to stop reading at these forums!

eriqesque · #5 Post by **eriqesque** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:17 am

Humpa
Yes I have no idea what I did wrong when it started to appear either
But I hate it so I have not tried in any way to recreate it.

If you do however decide to delete your original user acct.
Be sure to keep the files or make sure you have a current back up
Casue they will all be gone.

When it asked to save the files or delete I said delete.
And then I realized everything was gone.
I luckily had all my documents, pics and music stored on my desktop.

Humpa · #6 Post by **Humpa** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:23 am

Thanks eriqesque, but you don't have to worry about me.

.. been there, done that, and have plenty of back-ups.

I was briefly considering using last week's Ghost image, but I think I will look at the dotted-lined marquee for awhile instead.

MichaelMeier · #7 Post by **MichaelMeier** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:53 pm

Humpa · #8 Post by **Humpa** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:04 pm

MichaelMeier wrote:I know how to (de)activate it, but I do not know the names of the buttons in English.

It is located in the display properties. The 4th tab from the left (probably called "presentation" or similar). The top of the two buttons (labelled "effects" or so). In the appearing dialog box the option to hide shortcut indicators must be checked to get rid of the marquee or unchecked to have it.

Hope that helps.

I personally don't care about the marquee, but the keyboard shortcuts are not underlined, when that option is checked and I often use the keyboard, so I have to endure the marquee.

Hey, Thanks!

I actually thought about trying that (I had unchecked that box while I was playing with Selected Items colors) - but I'm an idiot, so I didn't.

I like those underlines, so I will live with the marquee too. I'm just glad to know where they came from.

eriqesque · #9 Post by **eriqesque** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:40 pm

MichaelMeier wrote:I know how to (de)activate it, but I do not know the names of the buttons in English.

It is located in the display properties. The 4th tab from the left (probably called "presentation" or similar). The top of the two buttons (labelled "effects" or so). In the appearing dialog box the option to hide shortcut indicators must be checked to get rid of the marquee or unchecked to have it.

Hope that helps.

I personally don't care about the marquee, but the keyboard shortcuts are not underlined, when that option is checked and I often use the keyboard, so I have to endure the marquee.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
Now if for some reason it happens again
I can hopefully fix it without the headaches.

Kenn · #10 Post by **Kenn** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:39 pm

Oh now I see. You're talking about the marquee that stays around the icon label even when you click off of a selected icon. Mine does that sa well, and fudging with the Underline setting in Effects doesn't make it go away.

I think it's SUPPOSED to be there, as an indicator of where your selection point is if you navigate your selection using the arrow. The marquee appears around the last-selected file in all folders as well. Note that there is only one active window at a time, so the marquee disappears from the desktop whenever you change focus to another window (and it comes back when you reselect the desktop by clicking on the background).

Don't know if it's a bug or a setting or intentional behavior, but I am glad that you don't have to deal with it anymore (and that it doesn't bother me that I can't get rid of mine

)

Humpa · #11 Post by **Humpa** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:44 pm

Kenn, on my pc's and thinkpad's, I have the marquee if I uncheck the box "Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation until I press the Alt key".

When I check the box, I no longer have the marquee around the text of the desktop icon (or the other places, like in the Folder views like you mentioned). That box was checked by default.

It works the same on the 4 installations of XP Pro that I have.

Kenn · #12 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:17 pm

Humpa wrote:
When I check the box, I no longer have the marquee around the text of the desktop icon (or the other places, like in the Folder views like you mentioned). That box was checked by default.

It works the same on the 4 installations of XP Pro that I have.

Rebooted, tried again, and you're absolutely right! How bizarre...I like the alt-tips enough to live with the marquee as well, but I'll definitely keep this in mind.

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