Today I discovered a most annoying feature of Windows by accident: the Narrator's highlight active area option. There I was just trying to use the computer and this stupid blue box kept appearing around where the cursor was.
It turns out this is a feature of the Narrator which I had turned on by mistake. The answer is to go into Narrator's options (it's a program): Start Menu\Programs\Accessibility\Narrator
Then uncheck "Enable visual highlighting Narrator cursor":
UPDATE
On Windows 8 the Narrator is a touch-screen app and the short-cut key is Windows logo key + Enter.
It turns out this is a feature of the Narrator which I had turned on by mistake. The answer is to go into Narrator's options (it's a program): Start Menu\Programs\Accessibility\Narrator
Then uncheck "Enable visual highlighting Narrator cursor":
UPDATE
On Windows 8 the Narrator is a touch-screen app and the short-cut key is Windows logo key + Enter.
