did you keep the 'themes' service? you've probably been too heavy handed with removals, take care when removing the 'red' entries attatch your last session.ini file and we'll see if its easy to determine what you've removed that needs to be kept
the button already changes color on that purpose, so there is no need for the rectangle to be there... in explorer, its clear with the retangle around it, until you press space, then it highlights it again
as i've already said above, its a very useful feature -allows you to know where pressing space will lead you in an explorer window when you re-focus on the window
xvid with mp3/ac3 (depending on what it is) i'd like to use x264 as i've seen and heard good things about it, but i've gotten lazy and use autogk all the time now
i'm sorry, just did this again in a VM and worked fine, but i should tell you that it was File System Filter Manager and not the WIM i was having trouble with
also, if you're running windows defender, turn off real-time scanning hainvg that and AV software is like having two AV software packages scanning every file as its ascessed