Desktop icons clear no color behind names..

[canada5611]

SpywareDr- I tried what you had suggested and rebooted but still no luck

Igbpop- I have never installed a videocard driver i have had windows xp since I bought it a couple years ago, but the icons did use to be transparent for all my backgrounds, i just used that one in the picture to see the black boxes.

Tugenuf- I changed the theme from My theme modified to Windows XP and still no luck

I went back and checked all the things that work for everyone but me and they are all still how they are suppose to be. Thanks for the help please keep it coming if anyone has any other suggestions

[Tufenuf]

canada5611, Go thru the links below. The third link is a thread which is 5 pages long but has many possible solutions.

Removing Box Behind Desktop Icon Text
http://www.onlinecomputertips.com/windows/wq57.html

Why Do My Icons Have a Background Color in Windows XP?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...in-windows-xp/

Desktop Icon Text Background problem
http://forums.whatthetech.com/Deskto...em_t74545.html

Tufenuf

[canada5611]

!!!!! Found the solution for my computer !!!!! thanks tufenuf on the last page of the third link I found the solution that worked for me.

Go into regedit. (Backup your registry of course)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\

Update these values:

"NoActiveDesktop" to "1"
"ForceActiveDesktopOn" to "0"

Exit regedit. Use task manager to restart explorer.exe or just reboot.

After this go to MyComputer/Properties/Advanced/Performance/adn then click on shadows.

Thanks everyoen for the help

[Tufenuf]

canada5611, Glad to see that the problem is corrected and Thanks for posting back to let us know the solution you used.

Tufenuf

[TrueGreen]

http://www.google.com/search?q=xp%2F...utf-8&oe=utf-8

[Pesnya]

thank you for your post, it helped me to remove those color bars