simple question

i know it's not much but where is the settings to remove the black highlight around my desktop icons they've been like it for some time now and have looked everywhere for where to change it but i can't lol
hopeless i know

 

This is what I did in XP, although my background was blue originally.

Got to Start/Control Panel
Choose "System" (Performance and Maintenance if in Category View)
Choose "Advanced" tab under system screen
Under "performance" on the advanced tab click "Settings"
On that settings screen scroll down to "use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" and tick to enable. Press apply and OK.

 

yeah tried that and it didn't work

 

must be hard question then

 

Try these go to Display Properties and click on Customize Desktop and Web. Make sure to uncheck the box in the “Lock desktop items”. (For Vista).

Go to Display Properties, go to arrange icons, make sure to uncheck the box in the “Lock desktop items”. (For XP).

 

no go there box was already unticked if i change the background colour in the settings the colour around the icons changes to if that helps

 

Just right click anywhere in your desktop & click on Properties then click on the Appearance-Advanced and change the color to dark blue (see the following Pic):
http://www.u11p.com/folder3/U11P_B4xsxIWAKP.jpg

 

have also tried that which works fine as long as you have no wall paper they just blend in but with a wallpaper any colour i choose just changes the colour of the box around the icons

 

i did type this in on google and it came up that it could be some sort of bug ????/

 

I did not find anything about a bug, but I did find a thread that had one more possibility:
"You might have active desktop (web content on your desktop) enabled. For some reason enabling active desktop content in XP disables drop shadows.

to check, right click on the desktop and select properties. Select the 'Desktop' tab then click 'Customize Desktop'. Now select the 'Web' tab. This shows a list of all web content on your desktop. Uncheck all the boxes on this page. Click 'ok'. That should do it"

http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39256

 

you sir are a bloody legend thankyou !

 

Amazing how a little thing like that can have so many procedures involved.
Good to hear it is finally resolved.