To eliminate coloured background under desktop icons' name

[Guest]

Hello everybody,
does anyone remember what registry key to modify to make desktop icons' name
transparent, that is, to eliminate blue background?
I need registry key, because I wasn't able and eliminate using usual
properties in "My Computer/Properties/Advanced" and "Desktop/Appearance/Web".

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hello everybody,
does anyone remember what registry key to modify to make desktop
icons' name transparent, that is, to eliminate blue background?
I need registry key, because I wasn't able and eliminate using usual
properties in "My Computer/Properties/Advanced" and
"Desktop/Appearance/Web".

To have transparent icons:

1) Hold down the Windows key and press Pause/Break. On the "Advanced" tab,
under "Performance" click "Settings." On the "Visual Effects" tab, make sure
the box "Use drop shadows for icon labels" is checked.

2) Right-click on the Desktop, and make sure that "Arrange Icons by" "Lock
Web items" is not checked.

3) Right-click on the Desktop, and choose Properties. Othe "Desktop" tab,
click "Customize Desktop," then on the "Web" tab, uncheck all boxes.

4) Make sure any Wallpaper is an image file. Html will stop the
transparency.

 

[Kristan Kenney]

I'd just like to mention that I've also seen some sporadic behavior of PNG
files being set as the background will also stop the transparency for
working. BMP and JPG seem to be the way to go.