desktop icon text box colour

Hi


Try the following to set icons on XPs desktop as transparent

Open Control Panel > System > Click the Advanced tab > Click Settings in the Performance section > Check the Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop checkbox > Click OK


Note that if you are using any tweaking applications these may overide the default XP settings so check those applicatins for settings for desktop icons.

 

Hi

If your asking about a tweaking app then very likely you have nto used one, but TweakUI and TweakXP as examples, but dont use them as you can make things worse.


Another thought is that you maybe ussing Active Desktop which is where you add say webpage content as your wallpaper, or may have accidently set it on or malware could have caused this, so try this it turns off active desktop web content, so you will likely loose your wallpaper until you set it again and if you used active desktop then this will go too but is a trade off between transparent icons or not

Right click on the desktop and choose Properties > Desktop Tab > Customize Desktop > Web Tab and then delete all Web pages one by one but leave "My current Home page" but untick it.

Click Properties in same window and untick "Make this page available offline" click OK

Uncheck Lock Desktop Items

OK


This window is the one for all the settings above