How To Remove Text Shadow on Desktop Icons In Windows 10

The Windows 10 virtual desktop is one of the most complete today. Thanks to virtual desktops, users can better explore everything the system offers. Such desktops allow you to add program, game, and folder icons to them.

Each icon that is added to the Windows desktop has a kind of shadow so that people can see what is written there. Throughout this short summary we will show how to eliminate that shadow left by the icons on the desktop, how the changes are saved when removing this shadow and why sometimes such a shadow is not erased.

What are the steps to remove text shadow on desktop icons?

Removing the shadow of the text left by the icons in the Windows writing is something really simple. There are two ways to remove this shadow, the first is from the control panel and the second is from the registry editor of the Windows 10 operating system itself.

In the next two subtopics that you will see below, we will show you how to remove the shadow of the icons that are on the desktop from the control panel and from the registry editor.

From the control panel

The Windows 10 control panel is the place where each of the system details that can be modified is displayed. From Windows settings, you can also tweak system things, but not things as deep as the control panel allows.

In the control panel you can even modify the system sounds . Now, see what you must do to erase the shadow of the icons:

1. Turn on your computer and go to the taskbar.
2. Put in the Windows search engine the word ‘ Control Panel ‘.
3. Then, select the first result and being in the control panel go directly to the ‘Security and system’ section.
4. Within that section, proceed to enter the ‘System’ sub-section and access the ‘ Advanced Settings for System ‘ option.
5. In the new window that will open, go to the ‘Advanced options’ section and click on ‘Settings’.
6. Look for another section that says ‘Performance’ and click on ‘Visual effects’.
7. Check the ‘ Customize ‘ item.
8. Uncheck the box that says ‘Use shadows as labels on all desktop icons’.
9. To finish, just hit apply and then ‘OK’.

In case you didn’t know, on the Windows 10 desktop you can put sticky notes to write down things you see at a certain moment.

With the registry editor

With the registry editor there is also a way to remove these shadows that reflect the icons that are on the desktop . Pay attention to what you should do:

1. Turn on your computer.
2. See the Windows desktop.
3. Press the ‘Windows’ key and then the ‘R’ button on the keyboard.
4. Now, in the run box, place the command ‘Regedit.exe’.
5. To continue, click ‘Accept’.
6. Inside the registry editor, look for something named ‘ListViewShadow’. This section is found by accessing the ‘Explorer’ folder and then in the ‘Advanced’ folder.
7. Upon finding the ‘ListViewShadow’ file, you’re going to double press
8. In the window that will appear, change the value from 1 to value 0. To do that, you must remove the 1 and put a 0.
9. To finish, press where it says ‘Accept’ and the changes will take place.

By the way, if you have too many icons on your desktop and you want the background to show, you can choose to hide all icons . By hiding all desktop icons, your wallpaper will be fully visible.

How to save the changes made to the desktop of your Windows 10 PC?

If you want to save the changes you have made from the control panel and from the registry editor to erase the shadow left by the program icons, you must press ‘Accept’ or ‘Apply’. These are the two buttons that you have to press in order to save the changes that make the shadow of the icons disappear.

It should be noted that, on computers that have the Windows 10 operating system , there is a way to change the size of the desktop icons . When you finish removing the shadow of the icons that are on the Windows desktop, you should see how these icons are resized and you can thus customize your virtual desktop in the best way.

Why isn’t the shadow on the icon text removed from the desktop in Windows 10?

Sometimes the shadow of the icons on the desktop does not disappear immediately, but is still there. In order for the changes to be carried out, it is important that you restart the computer . When the system restarts, the configuration you have made will be applied.

Now, if not even restarting the computer the changes are applied, you would have to visit the web for Windows technical support . There you will find more information about why sometimes there are settings that are not saved or that are not applied at the moment.