How to remove the desktop icon with shadows? Teach you to easily solve

“ How to remove the shadow of the desktop icon? & rdquo; often asked by some novices such a problem, sometimes it is the same problem, but it has to be asked several times by the same person, I feel really helpless.

People are always curious. In the process of using computers, novice children’s shoes always like to toss according to their own wishes, and sometimes they will toss out some minor problems, such as The desktop icon, after an accidental setting, becomes completely different. The desktop icon has a shadow, the desktop icon has a white background is one of them, then how to remove the desktop icon with a shadow?

Since it is caused by accidental settings or system default settings, it is natural to solve this problem by setting. First, both the first look at the effect of any difference, in FIG. 1, FIG. 2.

Figure 1 Desktop icon without shadow Figure 2 Desktop icon with shadow

Removing the desktop icon shadow is actually very simple. For the old bird, you can find the setting item with your eyes closed, but for For the novice who has just played the computer for a long time, even if he is told step by step, it is estimated that it is difficult to find where the setting item is. Let's take a look at the situation under the win7 system as an example to see how to set it up.

First right click on the desktop "Computer" icon and select "Properties" as shown in Figure 3.

3 computer properties

Then, the properties of the pop-up dialog box, select & ldquo; & rdquo ;, Advanced system settings as shown in FIG.

Figure 4 System Properties

Down, in the System Properties window, select the "Advanced" tab, in fact, in the previous step has selected the "Advanced" tab, no need Do this again. Click “Set" directly, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5 System Advanced Settings

Then the last step is the most important step. Click ““Settings” to enter the “Performance Options” dialog box. Select the "visual effects" column to find the "Use the shadows" option on the desktop for the icon effect, as shown in Figure 6, remove the previous “√”, click “ ” is complete.

6 Performance Options

The above is achieved by setting the system, usually the computer can know a little tossing about where the problem is, we believe it is not difficult. If you still can't solve the above settings, you can also try the following operations.

You can solve the problem that the desktop icon of the computer has a shadow by modifying the registry.

Open the registry, you can use the run command to open the registry directly, "start" ”--“run”---“regedit”, as shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7 Run Open Registry

After opening the registry, find the item "HKEY_USERS", expand and find "S-1-5-21-1229272821-515967899-68200330- 1000” (This different computer may have different key names) Click to expand. As shown in Figure 8.

8 Open the Registry

find & ldquo; software & rdquo; - & ldquo; Microsoft & rdquo; - & ldquo; CurrentVersion & rdquo; - & ldquo; Explorer & rdquo; - & ldquo; Advanced & rdquo;, open & ldquo; In the Advanced” option, find the “ListviewShadow” and “ShowCompColor” buttons in the right column. As shown in Figure 9.

9 found & ldquo; ListviewShadow & rdquo; and & ldquo; ShowCompColor & rdquo; two keys

The next thing to do is change the value of the two keys. Double-click the “ListviewShadow” button to pop up the key-value dialog box and change the value data “ldquo;0”” to “1”. As shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10 Modify the “ListviewShadow” key value

Double-click the “ShowCompColor” button to pop up the key-value dialog box and change the value data “ld”;1” to “ldquo” ;0”, OK. As shown in Figure 11.

11 Modify & ldquo; ShowCompColor & rdquo; value

Exit the registry, restart the computer, you should be able to solve the problem.

Note: The Registry Editor is a place where the entire system is compared. Before you fully understand the functions of the registry, do not arbitrarily change the key values ​​in the registry to avoid causing System crash or other problems.

If the above method does not work, it may be because the computer is poisoned, it is recommended to perform a full-scale anti-virus on the computer.

For the XP system, the steps are the same. If you use the XP system, you can follow the steps above to solve the problem.

The shadow of the desktop icon is a relatively simple problem. It can be solved under normal circumstances. If you want the desktop icon to have a shadow, you can follow the above steps to reverse the operation.

In the future, if you encounter a problem with the shadow of the desktop icon, you can easily solve it. There are many ways to solve the problem, and you should not be impetuous!