How do I make my Icons transparent?

[Soriasis]

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5738/iconat0.jpg

Not sure if this is the right section, but i couldn't find any other sections that would fit this.

As you can see. No MATTER what color I change my desktop color background to be, it will ALWAYS effect the icons. Like I remember fooling around with my appearance/desktop options, and I changed the desktop color to white. Then the Icons become white too. I checked up on my other computers and those sections were "transparent". My only assumptions of this happening would be Uninstalling Aston, but I'm pretty positive it has nothing to do with Aston. I just want it to be transparent like my other computers >.> Any ideas? Thanks.

[pam123]

Are you running Vista Home Premium?

[mojo]

I'm assuming you're just using skinned XP. Go to the system properties, either the windows key + pause/break, or right-click My Computer and go to properties. Go to the advanced tab. Under performance, click on settings. The second to last option is "use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop." This should be checked to make the text labels transparent like you want. If it is already checked, try unchecking it, then apply the change, then check it again and apply the change.

[Soriasis]

I am using Windows Blinds.

And Mojo, thanks for the input. But unfortunately, it didn't work. It probably has something to do with the registry or something when I played around with skins a long time ago. I think I'll be fine with "black". But if you have any ideas, that'd be great.

[juppy]

The way mojo said to do it is the only way I've ever known to make the icon text transparent. If it's not doing it with that option checked, then something else is overriding it. Most likely something like a different theme you've added or that Windows Blinds program. I've never used that myself, but isn't WB supposed to have an option for making the icon backgrounds transparent in it?