Remove the background from desktop shortcut name

[monirul arfin]

hi all,
im read all of your Discussion. It is realy exiting on me. And now i got a new tips on this conversation. Im very greatfull to join this site . thank you all.

I have also many problem & question . I will ask one by one to solve this .thank you again to all of you.
bye
monirul .

1) Do what markrawlingson suggests then skip to the second paragraph if the background remains. Another method to acheive the same result... Right-click desktop, select Properties, select the Desktop tab, select the Customize Desktop button, select the Web tab, uncheck Lock Desktop Items, OK out. If the Icon label background remains...

2) Right-click My Computer, select Properties, select Advanced, select Performance, select Performance Settings, place a check in Use Drop Shadows... OK out.

That should do it.

Timogin

[ak1dnar]

Thank you so much for all the responses. Please don't feel bad about me. The only what I can say again after trying those suggestions, It didn't work for me. Sorry. :(

[markrawlingson]

Ok, found another couple possible solutions...

1) Go to display properties
2) Go to the desktop tab
3) Go to the Customize Desktop tab
4) Go to the Web tab
5) This page should display a list, consisting of at least one checkbox with a description - if not more. It is web content, things like ms word/frontpage can generate junk in here. Make sure NONE of these are checked.. and personally I would go so far as to delete all of them that you are able to.
6) Of course, as previously stated.. make sure that Lock Desktop Items at the bottom is unchecked
7) ok out of all the windows.

If that doesn't help still - what is the file type of your background image? I've heard that certain image types (namely .png) can also cause this to occurr. Try changing the image to a windows default image and see if that helps. I've also read some .jpgs can cause this.

Another possible solution...

If you have a TV out videocard and the option "extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" is checked, go to display properties >settings >click monitor 2, give it a value of 800x600 or above.

I've also read that this can occurr if you've edited your registry to delete your recycle bin for some reason or another!

You may also want to create a new user profile on your computer to see if it really is a setting issue. Theoretically, if you create a new profile and the icons still have a blue background - it's probably not a settings issue at that point.

[Plater]

Hmm active desktop is a good point.
If you have active desktop turned on they will turn blue like that (Possibly also if you have them be single-click activate and not double-click activate)

It's possible that if you were in a context menu that had "Copy To Clipboard" that right next to it was a "Add as desktop item" or something similar and you accidently got that one and it turned on your active desktop?

[ak1dnar]

Ok, found another couple possible solutions...

1) Go to display properties
2) Go to the desktop tab
3) Go to the Customize Desktop tab
4) Go to the Web tab
5) This page should display a list, consisting of at least one checkbox with a description - if not more. It is web content, things like ms word/frontpage can generate junk in here. Make sure NONE of these are checked.. and personally I would go so far as to delete all of them that you are able to.
6) Of course, as previously stated.. make sure that Lock Desktop Items at the bottom is unchecked
7) ok out of all the windows.

There was a path like this on the location and after deleting that also It didn't change the background color

file:///C:/DOCUME~1/MyAccount/LOCALS~1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image002.gif

And another like this, But can't delete.

about: home

And I've noticed this, just now.
On Display properties >> DesktopTab there is a drop down list for selecting the colors. from there I could set up new background color to the desktop Items. Is there any way to make this transparent from that place.

[markrawlingson]

I would imagine that the clip_image is from word. The about: home is simply your homepage and it cannot be deleted from that list...

Many things have been suggested here and nothing is working obviously. This has GOT to be a registry problem. What I believe is happening is when you're changing the settings - windows is just basically unchecking/checking a checkbox without actually submitting the changes to your registry itself.

The below is a registry EDIT - I would sincerely suggest backing up your registry before performing any registry edit. However I strongly believe this one will fix the problem.

1) Launch Notepad
2) Copy the bold text below into notepad
3) File --> Save As
4) Type the filename as "myfix.reg" and set the Save As Type to "All Files"
5) Save the file to somewhere easy to access like your desktop
6) Double Click the file and commit the changes to your registry.

Makes sure you copy ALL of the bold below into notepad.


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACH INE\SOFTWARE\Mi crosoft\Interne t Explorer\Deskto p\General]
"WallpaperFileT ime"=-
"WallpaperLocal FileTime"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_US ER\Software\Mic rosoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\System]
"NoDispAppearan cePage"=-
"Wallpaper" =-
"WallpaperStyle "=-
"NoDispBackgrou ndPage"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_US ER\Software\Mic rosoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\Explor er]
"NoActiveDeskto pChanges"=-
"ForceActiveDes ktopOn"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_US ER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper" =-
"WallpaperStyle "=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_US ER\Control Panel\Colors]
"Background "="0 78 152"

If that STILL doesn't do it - then it's got to be one of two things : Your background image, or a 3rd party application is messing with it. If it doesn't work... remove your background image completely and just leave the background as a solid WHITE colour and see if the icons are then transparent or not. If the transparency disappears then it's the background image.

[markrawlingson]

Oh, and

And I've noticed this, just now.
On Display properties >> DesktopTab there is a drop down list for selecting the colors. from there I could set up new background color to the desktop Items. Is there any way to make this transparent from that place.

That's the solid background colour selector, you won't be able to make the background colour of the icons transparent with that - only solid colours. Closest you'd get is white.

[ak1dnar]

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACH INE\SOFTWARE\Mi crosoft\Interne t Explorer\Deskto p\General]
............... ............... ............... ...
............... ............... ............... ...

Hi mark,
I did as you said, and restarted the machine. When It comes there was no desktop image and just a blue back ground color. and Its same as the desktop item names background color.In other words If I set the desktop image to "none" from the display properties, this is same as that. Then I just try to set the default desktop wallpaper for windows. but again desktop background color came on the short cut names. Anyway Thanks for your time. and my special thanks goes to others also.

[markrawlingson]

hmmm, that is seriously messed up!! The only other thing I can suggest is an application called Iconoid. It definately has an option to set the background colour of your icons to transparent, but my best guess is that all it does is change the registry kind of like the regedit i gave you does.

Try it anyway though, maybe you'll get lucky... other than that, I gotta tell ya, I'm stumped!

I'll keep looking around and if i find another possible solution i'll post it.. in the meantime if you end up fixing it... do tell!

[ak1dnar]

hmmm, that is seriously messed up!! The only other thing I can suggest is an application called Iconoid. It definately has an option to set the background colour of your icons to transparent, but my best guess is that all it does is change the registry kind of like the regedit i gave you does.

Try it anyway though, maybe you'll get lucky... other than that, I gotta tell ya, I'm stumped!

I'll keep looking around and if i find another possible solution i'll post it.. in the meantime if you end up fixing it... do tell!

Sure Thanks a lot. I'll try that.

[ak1dnar]

This computer is currently using Active Desktop.
Some Iconoid function,such as transparent icon backgrounds,are disabled.

This is what Iconoid telling to me. So Transparent background option has disabled with the tool. but I have only about:home and that also unchecked on the web tab.

[Plater]

I would guess that somewhere a regestry setting is being protected from being changed.

So turn on active desktop and turn it off again and see if that fixes it. If not do you have some sort of regestry locker? Symantic? Spybot? mcaffee?

[markrawlingson]

This is what Iconoid telling to me. So Transparent background option has disabled with the tool. but I have only about:home and that also unchecked on the web tab.

Don't worry about that, just hit the disable button and you should get the menu that has the transparency feature. I don't have active desktop and it said the same thing for me.. (?) No idea why.

[ak1dnar]

I would guess that somewhere a regestry setting is being protected from being changed.

So turn on active desktop and turn it off again and see if that fixes it. If not do you have some sort of regestry locker? Symantic? Spybot? mcaffee?

Kaspersky is here in my system but I've tried with after disabling that also.

[markrawlingson]

Can you not get Iconoid to work still? It said the same thing on my system but there is a button that said "Disable Active Desktop" which when I clicked, then allowed me to alter the background colour/transparency for the icons.