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
Older comments
Very Good..working..(Solution 2 – Desktop Home Page Problem)
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Great ! I tried from the step 1 to 3.
It works.. now the blue box is removed below the icon
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Thanks – Sol 2 worked very well for me.
Thanks – Sol 2 worked very well for me. AWESOME
thank you it worked great . I build computers and never had this problem ..I feel stupid now lol
I am having a similar problem, however, none of the solutions work even though I have tried all a number of times. HELP!!!!!
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Dear Sir,
Out of three , first two didn’t worked out for me while trying the third option I am not getting the option of shadow option , under VISUAL EFFECTS
plz help
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It works, but what if I need to use a webpage as desktop background?
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Solution #2 worked for me. I’m so thankful you have provided these solutions, I was going crazy trying to figure out how to fix this. I’m happy now
Thank you very much. Solution 2 is work for me
I’m afraid none of the above worked for me. I eventually found that by right clicking on My Computer selecting Properties, this shows System Properties window; click on Advanced tab, on here select Performance/ Settings. On the Performance Options window that opens select Visual effects tab and then selecting ‘let Windows choose what’s best for my computer’ then OK
I guess the method of removal depends on how we each put them there!
ear Sir,
Out of three , first didn’t worked but the second one worked.i thank u a lot
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it worked!!!!!!!! i’ve had this problem for years now and the second solution totally did it!! thanks so much you guys!!
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