[Guide] How to remove solid background of desktop icons

Desktop icons with blue background color looks so bad and annoying. It makes desktop look tacky with lot of irritating blue color splashed on beautiful desktop wallpaper. You can easily remove this background color from desktop icons and make the background transparent.

It really sucks if you have a cool looking wallpaper as a background, but all your icons have large dark blue borders. Instead, if the text looks like it’s written right onto the wallpaper, the effect is much nicer.

Therefore here is the guide shown you how to get rid of those blue color background from desktop icons.

Guide
Step 1: First, may right click My Computer -> Propesties, or open the Control Panel and click on System.

Step 2: Now click on the Advanced tab and click on the Settings button under the Performance section.

Step 3: Finally, scroll down and check the Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop box.

That’s it! Now all of your desktop icons will have the blue backgrounds removed and will appear transparent.

Now doesn’t that look much better! Sure does to me!
Desktop icon background is set to transparent by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7, so you don’t have that problem in those operating systems. Enjoy!

Reference:
http://elechub.com/how-to-remove-blue-background-behind-desktop-icons/
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/desktop-icons-transparent-background/
http://itview.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/how-to-remove-the-background-color-of-the-desktop-icons/
http://www.techf5.com/827/remove-solid-background-color-from-desktop-icons/