Are your icons name’s blue?
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”
- 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
- 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
- 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!!!=)..
Thankyou it works ….
did all of the above and still did not work
Try making your background wallpaper as a .bmp file; it works for me
Try making your background wallpaper as a .bmp or maybe a .jpg file; it works for me
thanks
superstar, thanx so much !!
THANK YOU SO MUCH YARR
thankyou it is very useful to me
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!
Oh, thank you thank you thank you. Finally my desktop looks normal again!!!
Solution 3 helps me thx!
all 3 solution did not work still blue.
Help please
Hey lori…Send me a screenshot and I’ll see what’s up…might be a different problem.
R.
This has been my problem for weeks, and I didn’t know what to do. I tried googling it and found these solutions. I tried the 2nd solution. It worked!! Thanks a lot!
Hi Patrick, That’s good to hear. I’m glad google is sending people my way…good boy google…
Take care. Thanks for visiting.
R.
thank you soooo much,your solution was complete and helpful.
you first mentioned the reasons and then explained how to solve this problem,the best way,I’d already fixed it once,but now I was forgetting it,I searched some sites but yours was the most complete,
thank you all again.
Hi there star…glad this worked well for you!
Rosco
Thank u very much i get rid of this by selecting Sol-2……….thank u very much admin…………….
tanks a lot actually i am a kind of person not like to going something wrong with my machine so you helped me a lot thanks
thanks alot your solution #2 solved my problem and also solved my worry once again thanks a ton
Thank YOU..thank you ..thank you. I have been trying to solve this forever. You rock!
3 step try but not working way reason this problem ?
pleas tell me
sorry i am try again and job is done
very very thanks
thanks so much…..second option worked for me….now i can impress lots of my friends who has the same problem….thanks soooooooo much…
Thank u very much…
HURRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! Finally got the right answers…those highlighted words were bugging me…TYSM!!!!
thanx buddy this is really helpful.Finally i got rid-off of those highlighted words
Thanx man..it was really helpful
Here is another solution:
Go to the Control Panel and then to Accessibility Options and then the display tab. Next uncheck the box to use high contrast.
i tried all three none owrked for me???
Hi Kamz, If you remove your desktop background image and just set a plain colour background – does the problem go away?
If not, perhaps you can email me a screenshot of your desktop?
rosco at proposedsolution.com
Rosco I removed the desktop background image and set a plain color
the problem did go away, but then as soon as i put a pic back
the highlighting comes back.
finally did the second one and deleted the active desktop
page from the web listing. looks so much better now thanks much!
Thanks it Worked!!
thanks a great deal!! solution 2 did all the magic.
good solution
Thanks very much, you solved my problem!!!!!!!
thanku sir