Description
In Windows XP your desktop icons text labels used to be transparent but now the icons seem to have a blue background or blue highlight.
This seems to have happened the icons for no reason i.e. you did not mess with your appearance settings or display settings.
Symptoms
The icons on your Windows XP desktop have a blue background on the text label or the whole icon.
Explanation
This usually happens the Windows XP icons for one of three reasons:
- you have the desktop items locked
- you have the background set as a web page
- you have the drop shadow setting enabled
Solution 1 – Uncheck “Lock Web Items on Desktop”
Instructions:
- Right click on your Windows Desktop
- In the context menu, click Arrange Icons By > Uncheck Lock Web Items on Desktop
- Click OK
- Check your desktop icons
Solution 2 – Desktop Home Page Problem
Instructions:
- Right click on your Windows Desktop
- In the context menu, click Properties
- Display Properties should appear. Click the Desktop tab
- Now click the Customize Desktop… button
- The Desktop Items properties page should appear. Click the Web tab
- In the top pane where it says ‘My Current Home Page’, delete all entries from that pane except ‘My Current Home Page’
- Uncheck My Current Home Page
- Uncheck Lock desktop items
- Click OK and OK again
- Check you icons
Solution 3 – Disable Drop Shadow
Instructions:
- Right click on the ‘My Computer’ icon
- In the context menu, click Properties
- Click Advanced tab > Settings (In the Performance section)
- Look down the list and clear the Drop Shadows option
- Click OK > OK
- Check your icons
Thankk you sooooo much!!!=)..
In my case I had created a PNG image to use as my desktop. I converted that image to JPEG with Gimp and the blue highlight went away.
Yes, I have succeeded in trying Solution – 2 detailed here.I could get rid of blue highlight box.Thank you very much for the solution.
Thanks! Unchecking the Lock Desktop Items box removed my blue highlights, too. Hooray!
wow., thanks! it’s a great help..^__^
Hi ibee,
Glad you solved your problem!
Take Care
Rosco
awesome! It worked great!