{"id":1561,"date":"2013-10-18T20:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2020-10-04T21:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:53:03","slug":"desktop-icons-all-have-blue-highlight-box-around-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Desktop icons all have blue highlight box around text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Windows XP your <strong>desktop icons<\/strong> text labels used to be transparent but now the icons seem to have a blue background or blue highlight. This seems to have happened the icons for no reason<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPB7x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1562\" alt=\"SPB7x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPB7x.jpg\" width=\"755\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPB7x.jpg 1279w, https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPB7x-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SPB7x-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This usually happens the Windows XP icons for one of three reasons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you have the desktop items locked<\/li>\n<li>you have the background set as a web page<\/li>\n<li>you have the drop shadow setting enabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solution 1 \u2013 Uncheck \u201cLock Web Items on Desktop\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Right click on your Windows Desktop<br \/>\nIn the context menu, click Arrange Icons By &gt; Uncheck Lock Web Items on Desktop<br \/>\nClick OK<br \/>\nCheck your desktop icons<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solution 2 \u2013 Desktop Home Page Problem<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Right click on your Windows Desktop<br \/>\nIn the context menu, click Properties<br \/>\nDisplay Properties should appear. Click the Desktop tab<br \/>\nNow click the Customize Desktop\u2026 button<br \/>\nThe Desktop Items properties page should appear. Click the Web tab<br \/>\nIn the top pane where it says \u2018My Current Home Page\u2019, delete all entries from that pane except \u2018My Current Home Page\u2019<br \/>\nUncheck My Current Home Page<br \/>\nUncheck Lock desktop items<br \/>\nClick OK and OK again<br \/>\nCheck you icons<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solution 3 \u2013 Disable Drop Shadow<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Right click on the \u2018My Computer\u2019 icon<br \/>\nIn the context menu, click Properties<br \/>\nClick Advanced tab &gt; Settings (In the Performance section)<br \/>\nLook down the list and clear the Drop Shadows option<br \/>\nClick OK &gt; OK<br \/>\nCheck your icons<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Windows XP your desktop icons text labels used to be transparent but now the icons seem to have a blue background or blue highlight. This seems to have happened the icons for no&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}