Turn off light blue highlight following mouse everywhere
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 1:11 pm
Hello,
Is there any way to turn off the annoying light blue highlighting that follows the mouse when you hover or glide across files and folders? I find this distracting, similar to mouse trails or tooltips, and prefer a more minimalist interface like in macOS or Linux, or in the days before Vista. You can turn this "feature" off in Xplorer2, but I haven't been able to figure out how to turn it off in Explorer++ or Windows Explorer.
I'm using Explorer++ version 1.4.0.1838 dev (64-bit build) on Windows 10 Pro and, other than this one unsettling demon, everything else works beautifully. I had several other complaints (such as folders not auto-refreshing, newly-created folders not becoming the focus for rename, and general sluggishness) that were instantly solved when I upgraded from an old version to the latest version. The speed of the newest version in displaying the files and folders when you double-click on a folder is drastically improved from the version I had been using, where there seemed to be a 500 millisecond delay before anything would open and some folders would inexplicably take up to 2 seconds to open. I was almost ready to call it quits and learn to tolerate Windows Explorer when I had a hunch that I should click on "Help - Check for Updates".
Is there any way to turn off the annoying light blue highlighting that follows the mouse when you hover or glide across files and folders? I find this distracting, similar to mouse trails or tooltips, and prefer a more minimalist interface like in macOS or Linux, or in the days before Vista. You can turn this "feature" off in Xplorer2, but I haven't been able to figure out how to turn it off in Explorer++ or Windows Explorer.
I'm using Explorer++ version 1.4.0.1838 dev (64-bit build) on Windows 10 Pro and, other than this one unsettling demon, everything else works beautifully. I had several other complaints (such as folders not auto-refreshing, newly-created folders not becoming the focus for rename, and general sluggishness) that were instantly solved when I upgraded from an old version to the latest version. The speed of the newest version in displaying the files and folders when you double-click on a folder is drastically improved from the version I had been using, where there seemed to be a 500 millisecond delay before anything would open and some folders would inexplicably take up to 2 seconds to open. I was almost ready to call it quits and learn to tolerate Windows Explorer when I had a hunch that I should click on "Help - Check for Updates".