Unable to remove shadow of desktop icons of Windows XP

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Control Panel-System-Advanced-Performance Settings.
The option is: "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" on
the Visual Effects tab

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:26:05 -0700, "Raghu Kolar" <Raghu
Kolar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I am unable to find any option to remove the shadow of the desktop icons.
>The text displayed below the icons also displays the shadow.
>
>Does anyone know how to remove this shadow.
>
>Regards,
>Raghu K.

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Thanks Rick.

Your input is always extremely welcome.
I like the way you phrase things.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:17:11 -0400, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
<rick@mvps.org> wrote:

>In addition to Alan's always spot-on advice, also right click the desktop
>and choose 'arrange icons by', and make sure 'lock web items on the desktop'
>is not checked. If it is, click on it to uncheck it. This feature, when
>enabled, will also cause the desktop icons to use the desktop background
>color.
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
>news:b3vqg1tbulj6ebkqtn8d5fl1uqnn0hlk86@4ax.com...
>> Control Panel-System-Advanced-Performance Settings.
>> The option is: "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" on
>> the Visual Effects tab
>>
>> ...Alan
>> --
>> Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
>> http://dts-l.org/index.html
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:26:05 -0700, "Raghu Kolar" <Raghu
>> Kolar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>I am unable to find any option to remove the shadow of the desktop icons.
>>>The text displayed below the icons also displays the shadow.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know how to remove this shadow.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Raghu K.
>

I did all the options given in the reply. But still i am not able to remove drop shadows from desktop icons.
Is there any other option?