Highlighted links in Windows XP - HOW ???

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Wayne

Hi everybody!

Here's the annoying thing: I used to have Windows 98 and when you
clicked a link, say, in Internet Explorer with the right mouse button,
there used to be these little squares around the exact link. The same
happened when you clicked some icon in Windows once - it was both
highlighted and these squares were always indicating the exact size of
the link.
My question is: how do you enable these little squares around the link
in Windows XP because XP only provides a colour highlight (without the
squares).

Maybe I should set sth in the registry ???

Thanks in advance.

Wayne
 
Wayne said:
Here's the annoying thing: I used to have Windows 98 and when you
clicked a link, say, in Internet Explorer with the right mouse button,
there used to be these little squares around the exact link. The same
happened when you clicked some icon in Windows once - it was both
highlighted and these squares were always indicating the exact size of
the link.
My question is: how do you enable these little squares around the link
in Windows XP because XP only provides a colour highlight (without the
squares).

Maybe I should set sth in the registry ???

Thanks in advance.

Wayne
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I asked this same question until I was blue in the face. No-one was able to
help me in the windows XP help & support newsgroup or in other places for
weeks and weeks until one day some nice kind man dropped me an e-mail with
the solution to the problem. I was beginning to think that the little
dotted box was only a characteristic of WIN 98, and wasn't an option with
XP.

Anyway, here's what you need to do:

Right-click on your desktop, select Properties.
Click on Appearance, then Effects.
Uncheck the box "Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation."

That should do the trick.
 
Becks said:
I asked this same question until I was blue in the face. No-one was able to
help me in the windows XP help & support newsgroup or in other places for
weeks and weeks until one day some nice kind man dropped me an e-mail with
the solution to the problem. I was beginning to think that the little
dotted box was only a characteristic of WIN 98, and wasn't an option with
XP.

Anyway, here's what you need to do:

Right-click on your desktop, select Properties.
Click on Appearance, then Effects.
Uncheck the box "Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation."

That should do the trick.
Click to expand...

It worked!!

Big thanks for your help!!

Wayne
 
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