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I had all of the above listed and none of them worked for me. though I had been tinkering in regedit a little.

your icons will stay with a background no matter what if you have ForceActiveDesktopOn set to a value of 1 (true)

to find this REG_DWORD...

1) Run 'regedit' from run tool

1a) Backup your registry if you're not confident, a simple mistake could cost you your install so if you back it up, you can just import it again.

2) Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

3) Edit the value of ForceActiveDesktopOn to 0

4) Profit.


this is just how I fixed my problem, perhaps it'll help someone one day.

searchkeys: icon background desktop

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