Disable shadows under desktop icons?

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Yep, there sure is! Go to Start...Control Panel...System...Advanced
tab...then click on the Performance Settings button. In the Window that
opens - Visual Effects - scroll down to near the bottom and the 2nd from the
bottom entry should read something like "Use drop shadows...". Uncheck this
box and then OK your way out of the dialog.

"spam@grog.net" wrote:

> I noticed that when I switch my desktop wallpaper from a solid color to
> an image, XP adds this horrible drop shadow under the icon text. Here
> is what I mean: solid wallpaper on the left (good); JPEG wallpaper on
> the right (bad):
>
> http://www.grog.net/~derek/bg-solid-vs-img.jpg
>
> Is there any way to turn off these icon text drop shadows?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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spam@grog.net wrote:

> Thanks so much. I no longer have drop shadows, but there is a
> background-colored box around the desktop icon text:
>
> http://www.grog.net/~derek/bg-solid-vs-img2.jpg
>
> Is there any way to remove this box? Of course I can choose the
> background color to complement my wallpaper image, but it would be
> even better if there was no solid box around the text at all.
>
> Thanks again for your help.

No. The oddly-name drop shadows effect is what gives you the
transparency with the icon name.

Malke
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