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springbo
springbo

Reputation: 1096

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?

Upvotes: 41

Views: 14250

Answers (3)

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 114796

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.

Upvotes: 108

ChrisG
ChrisG

Reputation: 1346

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

Upvotes: 4

JaredPar
JaredPar

Reputation: 754943

It looks like you have an extension installed which is adding that box. Try disabling extensions until you find the one that is causing this

  • Tools -> Options -> Extension Manager

Upvotes: -7

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