Background

[Phixion2]

I am having some problems with the background of my computer. Me or someone else must have accidently clicked something and now I have blue squares around the letters on the desktop.

As you can see on the picture above, there are dark blue squares around everything. Is it possible to remove it, because it ruins my wallpapers?

[Jeremy]

Right click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Performance Settings > Select "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". Click OK.

[Phixion2]

I already did that, but it didn't work.

[Yzöwl]

We're not mind readers here, let us know what exactly you have tried and we will be less likely to repeat those particular steps.

In addition to that which was previously mentioned:

Display Properties

»

Desktop

»

Customize Desktop

»

Web

Make sure the

Lock desktop items

is unchecked!

[mmarable]

Turn off Active Desktop.

[Sonic]

In Display Properties » Desktop » Customize Desktop » Web , check if html pages are not present too ...

[bledd]

start, run,

regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

[Yzöwl]

Well I think that covers all the bases then.

[Phixion2]

I tried all above, but still the blue squares are there

In Display Properties » Desktop I can change the color of the squares, can u set it to invisible there?

I made a screen of that too but imageshack is down atm.

Edited March 19, 2007 by Phixion2

[Phixion2]

Turn off Active Desktop.

How do i do that?

[TheFlash428]

Funny, I've had this exact same problem before. I went completely nuts because I tried everything that everyone here has mentioned, and nothing seemed to work.

The bad news...I never did fix it! I eventually had to wipe the disk and rebuild the OS (for a different reason), so that of course did solve the problem--but I've definately seen this happen before with no explanation.

Edited March 19, 2007 by TheFlash428

[Phixion2]

That's really bad news since I'm not intending to whipe out everyhing...

[tal ormanda]

Try doing a system restore to a date before you did that.

Start>All Prorgams>Accessoriess>System Tools>System Restore

[Phixion2]

I thought about that aswell BUT I'm having this problem for more then a month

[tal ormanda]

You can go back more than a month. If you have points set then.