You can remove the chevron (>>) blue box icon overlay on files in Windows 111/10. This post explains what this icon overlay is & how to remove it.

If when you hover your mouse pointer over an icon, a blue border box appears, then here’s what you can do to remove this anomaly. I recently experienced this issue suddenly on my Windows 11/10 ...

The blue highlighting of desktop icons can happen accidentally in Windows XP or may be a part of the newest style changes in Windows 7. No matter what the cause, you can regain the plain icons ...