Since Windows 3.11 or even earlier, we had this ugly focus rectangle shown in almost every window, and most annoyingly, on items that are selected and have different signs to tell us they are in focus.
So I've made 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 I'm 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.

Click here to download.

Enjoy

Awesome. Thanks

Brilliant!! thanks!! Though I am still seeing it in Firefox

Also will i have to launch this every time I restart, or will it automatically work now??


thanks

It fails on my computer.

The universe hates me.

I've updated the download to fix the installation failures, and added some better error reporting. Now it will specify a meaningful error code (for me, at least) if the installation fails, and not just 0x8004005.

Hey, this is awesome! Thanks for this, it's really cool.

Great! It works for me! Thanks!

bump lol..

Ain't there any way to make this work in explorer and on the desktop =[

this seems a cool idea but can someone please provide more screenshots of this annoying rectagle?

in vista..

I just installed this and after a reboot it apparently removes it everywhere.. Goddamn beauty THANK YOU FOR THIS.. he should get more support tho im the only one hating this dot box?

Does it remove the rectangle everywhere on reboot in Windows XP as well?

Yes

how come this doesnt work for me i get an error message saying that it was loaded but failed
any solutions to this would be greatly appreciated

That's because Firefox does it itself on every platform. You can remove it by editing the default CSS styles, I think. Note that Neowin removes it in its stylesheets. This isn't very good because it makes Neowin not keyboard accessible.

THANK YOU!!!!! I hate this ugly rectangle, why the heck do they still have it?!

Instead of going start>run, do this:

1. Goto start menu
2. Type in cmd
3. Right click CMD and click Run As Administrator
4. Do the regsvr32 thing he said

I don't see the problem, it lets you know where you were before you current click.

Perhaps a lighter shade of the select background would be a better indicator.

thanx that worked


where do i go to find these css styles and wat do i edit and to wat?
thanx in advance

64 bit version would be great, any chance of this happening? Really dislike those focus rectangles.