re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 1:24 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by migs212 (2 messages posted) If none of the above worked for you... and you don't want to install software just to solve this issue... go to this registry key and set it to 0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\ForceActiveDesktopOn On Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 9:14 pm, Dennis wrote: >Alex, I had the same problem as you. I tried ALL of the suggestions here and everywhere. >None worked. And then I remembered a program I once used called TweakXP. Go to http://www.tweakxp.com/ > >Once installed, click the "Desktop" button on the left side menu. Under Active Desktop, >click the "Disable Active Desktop" button. Logoff. Logon. Problem solved. > >This is by far the easiest fix. > > > Written in response to: re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Dennis: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 9:14 pm) Responses to this message: re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (migs212: Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 1:27 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (2re: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 1:02 am) All messages in this thread [show all] If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Shadow D. Wolf: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 6:24 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (JJ: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 8:55 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (mualam: Thu, Jun 5, 2003, 12:32 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Bob: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 4:06 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Derek Bain: Fri, Apr 1, 2005, 11:51 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Kenneth Iversen: Sun, Jul 21, 2002, 7:50 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Roberto Racca: Wed, Apr 2, 2003, 8:34 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Tiguan: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 11:06 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Roger E. Lewandowski: Thu, May 15, 2003, 3:07 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (SaintSinner: Fri, May 23, 2003, 6:32 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Morpheus: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 8:30 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (bliytz: Thu, Nov 20, 2003, 5:02 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (theTiger: Tue, Oct 31, 2006, 2:42 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Seleucia: Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 1:32 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (John: Mon, Sep 12, 2005, 6:09 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (rupert: Mon, Aug 21, 2006, 5:02 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (rupert: Mon, Aug 21, 2006, 5:21 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Jesh: Fri, Jun 22, 2007, 11:01 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (crazy Banana: Sat, May 6, 2006, 1:18 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Jon Outram: Tue, Mar 2, 2004, 3:00 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Martin Glass: Mon, May 17, 2004, 11:47 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Gian-Pa: Sun, Aug 1, 2004, 7:47 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Jonny: Sun, Nov 7, 2004, 1:42 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (anil: Tue, Nov 8, 2005, 3:49 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 2:03 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 2:17 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Dennis: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 9:14 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (migs212: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 1:24 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (migs212: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 1:27 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Charles: Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 8:23 pm) solved problem!! (matt: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 11:29 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (2re: Wed, Dec 20, 2006, 1:02 am) This works!!!! (Mulder: Fri, Mar 2, 2007, 4:57 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Barrie smart: Fri, Jul 7, 2006, 5:00 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (anon: Mon, Feb 6, 2006, 9:24 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (J. 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