Desktop icons

[Guest]

After altering my display settings, my desktop icons have a blue box under
their labels, they used to be transparent. Does anybody know how to change
them back?

 

[Guest]

This KB article explains your problem:

Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency or the
drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305117/en-us

To turn off the "Lock Web Items on Desktop" feature, open Start, Run, type
without the quotation marks "desk.cpl", click OK, choose the Desktop tab,
click Customize Desktop, press the Web tab and *uncheck* the box "Lock
desktop items". Finally, click OK twice to close all open dialog boxes.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, that hasn't solved my problem.

This KB article explains your problem:

Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency or the
drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305117/en-us

To turn off the "Lock Web Items on Desktop" feature, open Start, Run, type
without the quotation marks "desk.cpl", click OK, choose the Desktop tab,
click Customize Desktop, press the Web tab and *uncheck* the box "Lock
desktop items". Finally, click OK twice to close all open dialog boxes.

 

[Bob B]

Why not just right click the desktop and then uncheck "Lock Web Items on
Desktop"

BB

 

[Guest]

Open Registry Editor (Regedit.exe), browse to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and delete the value "ForceActiveDesktopOn" (if exists). Then log off and
log on again to see the results.

If still no joy, make sure you are *not* using an HTML file as background
and all Active Desktop web content is disabled.

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Regards,
Daniel Martín
Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User

 

[Guest]

It worked! Thanks very much for your help.

Open Registry Editor (Regedit.exe), browse to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and delete the value "ForceActiveDesktopOn" (if exists). Then log off and
log on again to see the results.

If still no joy, make sure you are *not* using an HTML file as background
and all Active Desktop web content is disabled.

 

[Guest]

You're welcome.

--
Regards,
Daniel Martín
Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User