By default, the text below the icons on the Vista desktop use drop shadows. Sometimes this looks good, and sometimes it doesn’t. As an example, I changed my desktop to be solid white, to make doing screen captures for inclusion in these posts a bit easier. Notice when you do that, the white text with the drop shadow just looks ‘muddy’, and is difficult to read:
Removing the shadow makes the text much easier to read in this case:
There are a number of ways to get to this setting, but so far all that I’ve explored take a number of clicks. Here’s one:
Click on Start and choose Control Panel
Click System and Maintenance
Click System
Towards the bottom-right corner of the System window, click (click continue if UAC asks for approval)
In the System Properties window that opens, select the Advanced tab, and click the Settings… button
At the bottom of the Custom: section of the Visual Effects tab of the Performance Options window, uncheck Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop
Click OK, close all the windows that are left open, and admire your readable desktop labels!
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