TIP: You may want to play around with another option called Smooth edges of screen font in the above screenshot. Obviously, enabling or disabling this setting has no effect on the icon labels. If it doesn’t revert back then your problem is solved. If it does what it’s supposed to do, it is highly likely to revert back to the old setting and start displaying shadows. This may remove the drop shadows for the icon labels on the desktop, but for most people this option doesn’t do anything.
This option is available on the Visual Effects tab. In the Performance Options window, clear the option Use drop shadows icon for labels on the desktop.In the System Properties window click Settings on the Advanced tab.In the System window, click Advanced system settings.Hold down the Windows icon on your keyboard and press the Pause/Break key next to the Scroll Lock key.I was going to call this Solution #1, but if I tell you that it doesn’t work then by definition it’s not really a solution.
