Annoying Thing On Desktop

[nice 28]

It's a bit off topic but i thought one of you guys could help.

All the items on my desktop are highlighted when they're not selected.

Take a look at the pic and you will see what i mean.

If anyone knows how to fix this please tell me.

Cheers

[ish]

cant see a pic there nice 28

[nice 28]

sorry guys will get the pic up tonight.

i thought i uploaded it :S

[nice 28]

pic should be up now

[SpeedRacer]

Your icons are not selected, your Desktop icons are locked.

To remove the background colour from around the text right-click your Desktop > Arrange Icons By > Lock Web Items on Desktop.

This should solve your issue.

Nate

[ZENNON]

or it could be because you have desktop items on your desktop...

if you go to Display Properties --> Desktop -> Customize Desktop -> Web

do you have anything listed there? Are any of them ticked on?

[nice 28]

Your icons are not selected, your Desktop icons are locked.

To remove the background colour from around the text right-click your Desktop > Arrange Icons By > Lock Web Items on Desktop.

This should solve your issue.

Nate

tried it mate didn't work but thanks.

or it could be because you have desktop items on your desktop...

if you go to Display Properties --> Desktop -> Customize Desktop -> Web

do you have anything listed there? Are any of them ticked on?

went to that and it had my current home page listed and some other random thing. i deleted the other one and they were both unticked.

i ticked and unticked them but still didn't work.

any other ideas guys??

[Sl!m]

maybe some thing in display properties --> Apperance --> Advanced --> ???

[ZENNON]

What OS are you running? WinXP?

What do you have as your background? A bmp?

Just to confirm if you go click on Customize Desktop

and go to the Web tab nothing in the webpages list is ticked on

and the Lock Desktop items box is also not ticked?

Maybe try changing your background image to a BMP is if isn't one already...

[Astonish]

ok my first question to you is going to be...is your background picture covering the whole screen??? if so go to control panel/display then click on desktop tab then click on the colour bar pick your prefered colour...play around with that colour var and you might have a better idea what im on about

[Grant]

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

2. Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.

3. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Performance.

4. Click to clear the Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop check box, click Apply, and then click OK two times.

5. Close Control Panel

[ZENNON]

and if you dont have "Performance and Maintenance" in control panel - suck sh1t!

[nice 28]

yer im running xp

and no none of the boxes in customize desktop are clicked

even if i change the background to one of the standard ones it's still like that

and i dont have Performance and Maintenance in my control panel

any other ideas guys??

[nice 28]

OMG YES!!

I GOT IT

hahaha

in case if any one is wondering you go

right click my computer > properties > advanced > settings (under performance) > and then you tick use drop shadows.

thanks everyone for your help, honestly appreciate it a lot

[ZENNON]

and i dont have Performance and Maintenance in my control panel

yeah neither did i - glad you got it sorted