Desktop Icons

[Quicksilver]

Please can anyone tell me how to have the desktop icon on Win XP without the text being shown white-out in a box and without the drop-shadow. If I remove the drop- shadow (via Properties etc) I get the box (I know how to change the colour of the box). If I customize to remove the box I get the drop-shadow on the text. What I'm after is the icon without the text being in a box nor having a drop-shadow. This is really bugging me (-:

[wildwood]

If you mean no text box there is one way but it may not be what you want. First download a free small utility called Spectroscope v1.45. Now use a wallpaper that has one even colour in the area where you keep your desktop icons.

Install the spectoscope program and using the eyedropper, get the info of the wallpaper colour and set your 'desktop background colour' in the properties the same as the wallpaper colour. That should show the icons with text under it without a textbox.

You need to make sure that the wallpaper colour is even all over the space where the icons are going to live, or there may be some outline of a textbox.

[Quicksilver]

Thanks for this wildwood but it's not really what I'm after. All I want is the text on my desktop icons to be without a textbox and without drop-shadow.....like it used to be until last week!!

[peanut]

If it was ok last week then do a system restore. start, accessories, system tools, system restore. restore my computer to an earlier date.

[Quicksilver]

Thanks to you also Peanut. Unfortunately I cannot restore to back then as I run a deletion programme to clean my computer on a regular basis and it removes all previous settings and only retains the current ones....then I defrag and my computer steams along at breakneck speed!!

[peanut]

how about restoring your desktop to default settings?

[deggers316]

never delete the sytsem restore.it takes care of itself ,you can tell it to use less space on your hard drive (s) in the settings if you wish
i clean my comp weekly too but never the restore