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Remove strange blue box in visual studio

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This blue rectangle is fixed on the screen. Sometimes growing, shrinking and changing place.

tried the answer to this question: In the Visual Studio SQL editor, how do I get rid of the boxes? as I thought it might be related but didn't help. How to get rid of it?

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springbo Avatar asked Mar 03 '14 14:03

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2 Answers

The box is drawn by Windows' Narrator feature for people with low vision. I recently accidentally toggled this myself by hitting winkey+enter. Hitting it again and moving the mouse cursor seems to toggle it back off again as well.

As mentioned below, depending on the narrator shortcuts configured on your system one of the following may work:

  • winkey+enter.
  • caps lock+esc

Full overview of narrator hot keys can be found here.

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jessehouwing Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 19:09

jessehouwing


For some reason Winkey + Enter didn't work for me. However I found Caps Lock + Esc did the trick. See Narrator Shortcuts for more info

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ChrisG Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 20:09

ChrisG