OK, so for a long time now (forever), the icons on my desktop have had drop shadows.

Today I changed my background, and now all the icons have a fugly black background.

How do I make them transparent again?

I googled this for about an hour and got many answers, but zero of them have worked.

i dont know. i figure out that a light color (like white) makes the background black.

You've locked your desktop icons. Right-click on the background>Arrange Icons By>Lock is probably checked. Unlock them

I never lock them.

It's really annoying me

Then you probably set your computer to best performance:

Right click on My Computer and select properties>goto the advanced tab>Click on performance settings>goto the visual effects tab> select Adjust for best appearance

then I will have to install my theme again!



but i'll see if it works.

edit:

ohh you said performance >.< That's not helpful at all. it's already on that.

thats happened to me
For some reason if its a photo or just some type of picture it will be transparent. Other times it wont and im sure it depends on the file type? idk but if it isnt going transparent you have to just change the colour yourself and try to match it up with the colour behind as best as possible.

Close.

go there but then click the custom tab, and check add drop shadows to icons on the desktop.

You obviously didn't read.

I did. That is how you do it. I have had the same problem before.

I cant remember exactly but right click computer click advsnced tb cick performance then make sure that something close to "add drop shadows to icons on the desktop"is checked.

He is trying to get rid of the drop shadow.

The drop shadow has disappeared. I want it back.


That option was never un-checked, joseph. I changed the background and it screwed up the icon shadows.

Don't the drop shadows go away if you set the background to a solid color (or if you have a picture that doesn't cover the entire screen)?

it may be because my picture doesn't cover the entire screen :/


I have it set to center and it's only like 800x600 or something... my screen is 1440x900

Yeah, that could be it. I know I had some problem like that (on XP, at least).

Didn't think to check if you had a solid color desktop. Yeah, you'll need to set the color of the icon text box to the same color as the desktop.

Yes. Then whatever the desktop background color is is the color of the backgrounds of the icons.