How to disable hover highlights on the desktop only?


velocitra

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i need to disable the highlight that happens when you hover over files or folders
preferably only on your desktop and not file explorer

is there any way?

thanks
 
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Hello, and welcome to the forum. :alien:

These are pop-up info tips.

You can disable these using an option in the tutorial below, but unfortunately, it's an all or none setting.

www.elevenforum.com

Enable or Disable Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable show pop-up descriptions for folder and desktop items for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. When you hover over a file, folder, drive, or desktop items in Windows, a pop-up description (infotip) will show displaying basic property...
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Brink said:
Hello, and welcome to the forum. :alien:

These are pop-up info tips.

You can disable these using an option in the tutorial below, but unfortunately, it's an all or none setting.

www.elevenforum.com

Enable or Disable Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable show pop-up descriptions for folder and desktop items for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. When you hover over a file, folder, drive, or desktop items in Windows, a pop-up description (infotip) will show displaying basic property...
www.elevenforum.com www.elevenforum.com
Click to expand...
1781448550305.webp i meant these
 

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Ah, ok. The highlight happens when the item is selected.

You could select to use Double-click to open an item (single-click to select) below instead so hovering on an item will not select it.

www.elevenforum.com

Open Item with Single-click or Double-click in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to open items with a single-click or double-click for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can set Windows to open an item with a single-click/tap or double-click/tap. The Single-click to open an item (point to select) option allows you to open an item...
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Brink said:
Ah, ok. The highlight happens when the item is selected.

You could select to use Double-click to open an item (single-click to select) below instead so hovering on an item will not select it.

www.elevenforum.com

Open Item with Single-click or Double-click in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to open items with a single-click or double-click for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can set Windows to open an item with a single-click/tap or double-click/tap. The Single-click to open an item (point to select) option allows you to open an item...
www.elevenforum.com www.elevenforum.com
Click to expand...
sorry for the misunderstanding again but my mouse is hovering over the folder, which gives it a bit of an highlight, the screenshot just didn't include the mouse. single clicking should still select it but i don't want hovering over it to give the highlight.

maybe i could edit the aero.msstyles, but i would need to know which class/part/state in msstyleEditor controls it so i can replace the images with transparent ones
 

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I'm not aware of a way to disable the highlight on hover.
 

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velocitra said:
sorry for the misunderstanding again but my mouse is hovering over the folder, which gives it a bit of an highlight, the screenshot just didn't include the mouse. single clicking should still select it but i don't want hovering over it to give the highlight.
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No offense, but why is this a "thing"? Maybe it's just me, but I can't see this being a problem.
 

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velocitra said:
but i don't want hovering over it to give the highlight
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Mine does highlight with hover... but I can't SEE it.

I have things set to activate on double click.
Single click (but not hover), will noticeably highlight the item, when I move the cursor off the object.

In File Explorer options...

Image1.webp
 

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gunrunnerjohn said:
No offense, but why is this a "thing"? Maybe it's just me, but I can't see this being a problem.
Click to expand...
none taken, just trying to experiment with custom folder icons
 

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velocitra said:
... is there any way?
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No.

It doesn't matter what you have anything set at, the 'shadow' will still appear on mouse pass-over! It's hardcoded into the OS!

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You have to patch the theme file or find a theme that doesn’t have it and patch your system to use custom themes

Remove icon hover highlight

I wanted to know if it was possible to remove the hover\press highlight that appears on the icons on the desktop and in Windows Explorer. Here's a picture to show you what I mean. I did some searching and found there is no up front way to do this, as it requires modifying some (system) files...
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