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I am using Windows 11 and have noticed some major UI changes since it's release. One such UI change I noticed is the icon on desktop when selected with mouse click a translucent box appears showing that you selected the icon, however the box is very translucent and make harder to see the selected icons.

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I have attached the gif, Any idea how can I make that translucent selection into a solid dark colour which is easy to notice?

Something like Windows XP where whole icon is coloured in selection color, please see the attached image.

WindowsXP style icon selection color is expected instead of fluent style windows 11

Please help anything be it regedit or an app, anything that would help solve this UI thing.

Thanks in advance.

Robotnik
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Nandini
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I agree this is annoying, but honestly it's not something I noticed until you pointed it out. It's only an issue on the desktop, not really an issue for me inside of folders.

Not a perfect solution, but you could enable checkboxes on icons so they appear more visually selected.

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Do this by going to Folder Options > View > Use checkboxes to select items

And just to note, it seems to totally depends on the current wallpaper for contrast. My darker backgound that came up looks great this this. But I agree, it's a bad design and should look and work well all the time.

darker wallpaper

Chris Barr
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A discussion on Microsoft forum suggests three solutions. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1193134/how-to-change-the-highlight-color-of-a-selected-de

  1. change accent color in personalisation settings (doesn't work for me)
  2. use a registry edit (it is not clear if this gives a solid colour to the icon highlight or is just the manual version of (1))
  3. use a 3rd party app
Ad Astm
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