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    Get rid of icon hover highlight in Explorer in Windows 7

    I am using Windows 7 Ultimate and have a small question, hope you guys can provide me the required info. Though it may sound silly but i really need to do this. As the title says itself, i want to disable the highlighting feature that appears when you mouse hover on any icon or folder in Windows explorer or on desktop. hope you understood what i mean to say. When you take your mouse on any folder it gets highlighted with a box. I want to disable that highlighting. Not sure but i guess this is possible. Please let me know if any of you have idea doing the same.

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    Re: Get rid of icon hover highlight in Explorer in Windows 7

    Do you want to disable the highlighting as shown in the image below:


    If yes, then you will need to create a new custom theme and do editing in its Theme.msstyles. By the way can you just tell me what is the problem, how is it troubling you that you will want to mess up with the themes?

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    Re: Get rid of icon hover highlight in Explorer in Windows 7

    Quote Originally Posted by Kirtana View Post
    As the title says itself, i want to disable the highlighting feature that appears when you mouse hover on any icon or folder in Windows explorer or on desktop.
    Here is a small registry script that will help you to remove the mouse hovering from windows explorer as well as from desktop. Just make sure that you backup your registry before running this script. If anything goes wrong, I am not responsible for anything.

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