How can I remove the colour from desktop icons

[Squibbit]

I am running Win XP Pro on my computer. My desktop icons are having some background colour behind each icon's name which I don't want. I checked in the properties, but can't find how to make the changes. How can I remove the colour?

[Yitzchak909]

Go to Display Properties -> Appearance Tab -> Effects Button -> "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" Set to Clear Type -> OK.

[Rkhon]

If that didn't work then

Go to Display Properties -> Desktop Tab -> Customize desktop -> Webs Tab -> Un check if anything is selected.

[Howitzer]

I was also facing the same problem. After googling a lot got the result. It generally happens when the value of ForceActiveDesktopOn is set to 1(true)

Here is the solution:

• Go to Run, type 'regedit' and click ok. This will take you to registry editor of windows (Save your registry if you are not confident enough)
  
• Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
  
• Change the value of ForceActiveDesktopOn to 0
  
• Profit.

[rupak]

I was also having this shadow kind of thing in the background of my desktop quite annoying to me! Anyway thanks for the solution!

[Champak]

Hey your solution works great!
Thanks a lot Yitzchak909!