Hi Loungers
I’ve just had to move from Win7 to Win10 on the death of my 10 year old laptop. One of the new ‘features’ in Win10 is that when you have a list (e.g., in windows explorer showing a list of folders and files or, say in email, with a list of new mail) as you move the mouse cursor / pointer over the list the list item directly underneath the pointer is highlighted when the cursor in the ‘name’ column in windows explorer or anywhere in the list in the likes of email. This is probably a great boon for mouse users, but, as a keyboard freak, its a nightmare as the cursor highlight is almost identical to the highlight on a selected item, so I can’t tell if the item is selected or if the mouse is hovering over it.
I would like to turn this ‘feature’ off, or at least be able to change the settings, e.g., change the colour or change the density so I can easily tell the pointer highlight from a selected item.
However, despite an hour of web searching, and contacting Microsoft support, who took a quarter of an hour to just understand what I was getting at, and in the end could only tell me that it was a new feature of Win10 and had no idea to what the ‘feature’ was even called, let alone how to change it.
I have also tried programs that hide the mouse pointer after a given delay, but, they done hide the cursor from windows itself, which continues to highlight the item under the hidden cursor.
I am clear that there are no settings to change this in the old skool “Control Panel” nor the new fangled (showing my age) “Windows Settings”, so it will need a tweaking utility or a registry hack.
Very much looking forward to someone putting me out of my confusion
Cheers
Merf
