Desktop Shortcuts

[RickyC]

All my desktop shortcuts are always highlighted since i installed a new game. kinda looks like this now

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8913/sampleul1.jpg

Also can take time to load my wallpaper on startup since i installed the game Im on a laptop with 256mb ram, sis 650 video card >_> pent 4.

This has happened once before when i had to reinstall windows XP home but cleared inself when i installed XP pro which is what i have now.
Some told me to "Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > Performance Settings > Uncheck the box that says "Use drop shadows for icons on the desktop"." but that didn't do anything

Any ideas to help would be welcomed

[DaveC2003]

If you have a desktop theme set up...
control panel
display
desktop theme
then on the clicked items on the right unclick desktop
that should bronk back your desktop color to previous property

[DaveC2003]

Take a look at the link below.

http://www2.technobabble.com.au/modu...rticle&sid=178

Have a look for

Remove the box around desktop icon titles

[RickyC]

Originally Posted by DaveC2003

Take a look at the link below.

http://www2.technobabble.com.au/modu...rticle&sid=178

Have a look for

Remove the box around desktop icon titles

Im a bit confused why your post appeared above my old one but doesn't matter because the 2nd bit in link fixed problem! Thanks!!
Now my old post still on bottom ¬_¬

[RickyC]

Originally Posted by DaveC2003

If you have a desktop theme set up...
control panel
display
desktop theme
then on the clicked items on the right unclick desktop
that should bronk back your desktop color to previous property

I see nothing about desktop theme, i just use a wallpaper.

Originally Posted by oldtimer

Your picture and post don't really explain what you want to see.
What do you mean by "highlighted"?
Are you useing a full screen personal picture ?
Is it set to be centered? Are you familar with appearance settings ?
So what doesn't look right ?

Ok i will try to explain it better

This is what my desktop looks like -
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2403/desktopge6.jpg

There seems to be a blue border around all my shortcuts. Also when i starting windows up today my desktop loaded with a blue background that matched that colour around my shortcuts, then about 7 seconds later my wallpaper appeared like it was going over the blue background but some of the blue remain around the shortcuts ¬_¬

I also found out that i can change the colour around my desktops shortcuts by changing the colour in desktop properties like this..

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1627/desktop2kl9.jpg
and
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5267/picture3gq3.jpg

I know the basics of appearance settings. They all seem to be set on default settings except my desktop background

Uhh i just noticed that when i go onto desktop properties then screensaver or settings it doesn't notice my background when it shows the example, it just shows the colour my desktop is set to. Umm when i mean by is this ._.
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5627/desktop4ou5.jpg

I've tried switching background but the problem still remains.

I hope i gave better information this time -_-