Universal Focus Rectangle Remover

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Universal Focus Rectangle Remover

In Windows you may have checked that there is an annoying focus rectangle displaying in almost every window and almost on all items that are selected and have different signs to tell us they are in focus.
So here is a little program to remove this thing. It should work on every 32-bit version of Windows. A 64-bit version might come later, but not sure.

Installation:
1. Put RemoveFocusRect in your system32 directory.
2. Click Start and select Run.
3. Type "regsvr32 RemoveFocusRect.dll" (without the quotes) and press OK.
4. Next time a program is started, it won't have focus rectangles.

Note: In Windows Vista, all those steps should be done with administrative privileges.

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Another method of Installation

You'll want to download and extract the zipped file, and then copy the RemoveFocusRect.dll file into the System32 directory, usually located at the following path:

C:\Windows\System32

You'll get a message saying that access is denied, but you should be able to copy the file after clicking through the prompts.

Next you'll need to open up an administrator mode command prompt, and then run the following command to register the DLL file with Windows:

regsvr32 RemoveFocusRect.dll

You should get a message saying that the registration succeeded. If you get an error, there's a good chance you are running on 64-bit and it just won't work. If so, make sure to delete the file that you copied.

Once you reboot the computer, you'll see that the rectangle is now gone

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Uninstallation

Open up an administrator mode command prompt like before, and type in the following command to uninstall the component from the registry (very important). Note: You'll have to be in the \Windows\system32 directory for it to work, but that's the default path for an administrator mode command prompt anyway.

regsvr32 /u RemoveFocusRect.dll

You should get a message saying that it has been successfully removed. Now you can delete the file simply with this command:

del RemoveFocusRect.dll