Transparent Icons on the Desktop

Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/ Visual
Effects/"Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop". If this still
doesn't do the trick, right-click the desktop, point to Arrange Icons By and
make sure that Lock Web Items on Desktop is un-checked;
or try
Right click on desktop. Select Properties, then open Desktop tab.
Click on the Customize Desktop button, then open the Web tab.
Delete everything in the Web Pages box except, My Current Home Page.
Press OK, then Apply, and maybe OK again.
You may have to restart for settings to take effect.


"Jeff Hartmann" <jeffhartmann402@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1a28701c38784$82e2a470$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> Right now the icons on my desktop show the file name
> which is surrounded in blue (or whatever color I
> choose). How do I get rid of this Blue and make the
> color transparent so that no color is surrounding the
> name?
>
> Already tried unchecking "lock web items on desktop" but
> it didn't work