re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 5:52 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Moose (1 messages posted) ***SOLVED*** It appears there are many solutions and obviously all are dependant upon the actual original CAUSE. CAUSE (mine). Windows picture & fax viewer not working thus causing desktop problems. If you share the same problem here's the fix that worked for me. To Re-Enable Pic/fax viewer: Start - Run - regsvr32 shimgvw.dll To DisablePic/fax viewer: Start - Run - regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll Then go back into Display settings/desktop & reset choices (now you should have .bmp & any jpeg files showing in menu (assuming you have some)), the goto System properties>advanced & check 'use drop shadows for icons'>apply etc... Then log-off, log-on, then you may need to reset setting again (may be required twice as it didn't stick for me 1st time around). On Friday, October 19, 2007 at 12:08 am, BC wrote: >My problem cause by diabling Windows Pictures & Fax Viewer (From Tweak - WinXP Manager). >Reenable it to solve the problem. Written in response to: re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect (BC: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 12:08 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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: (satish: Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 6:29 am) 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: (David: Sat, Jan 3, 2009, 11:32 am) 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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