Blue Rectangles Around Icons

Question

Before posting I searched the forums and followed any fixes I found, so far none have worked. I searched for the shellicon fix and it came back unfound, I changed my advanced preferences to remove shadow boxes, I rebooted after all of this and STILL the stupid rectangles are there, they are around the icon names and then a blue shadow around the icon pics/symbols themselves.  It is driving me NUTS!!!!   ANY help is GREATLY appreciated!!!!   Thanks in advance!

RoHe · Answer

Maybe this thread will help: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Desktop_Icon_appearance_problem-t28786.html Ron

mombodog · Answer

Right click properties on My Computer, go to the advanced tab, click Performance settings, tick the box 'use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop, hit apply. I know it sounds like the opposite of what you want but it works. I use this on all my PC's.

Beanut · Answer

Thanks for the help, but I'm still having problems, the link just returns an error page and I copied it directly?

Also, I clicked the option to "drop shadows" and nothing happened. This is the same option I had originally "un-clicked" per some other posts I had read in this forum.

Any other ideas??? I can't believe I can't fix this, it's seriously making me nuts!!! :smileymad:

RoHe · Answer

Link works for me, copied/pasted directly from my previous post. Here's gist of that thread:

"I recently installed a new monitor. I've got Windows XP Home Edition at current SP2 level. Somewhere in the process of fixing the appearance of my desktop for the new monitor for 'effects', etc., the text description of each icon on my desktop became housed in a solid color rectangle. They used to be plain text without the boxes..."

"Right click My computer, choose properties, choose advanced, choose performance, settings. "Let Windows chose what's best for my computer". It turned out that I had changed the performance setting to 'customize' and unchecked all the boxes except for rounding the characters, which was recommended when I installed new monitor. The box for 'translucent selection rectangle' needs to be checked also to get rid of the solid color rectangles on your desktop."

Ron

Message Edited by RoHe on 05-30-2005 04:22 PM

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Blue Rectangles Around Icons

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