Now, move to your desktop and right-click on the desktop icon you want to make invisible. In our case, it is Recycle Bin. And, from the context menu, click on the Rename option. Or, press the F2 key.

In Windows 7, a transparent blue square appears around any icon if you move the mouse slowly across it or if you select it with one click. To remove this feature, right-click on your desktop ...

Select the "Visual Effects" tab, and then click the button next to "Custom." Check the box next to "Use Drop Shadows for Icon Labels on the Desktop." This option makes the icon background transparent.

Recover missing desktop icons in Windows 2000 Pro . ... moving users' folders to a server in a process that's transparent to the user. ...

Reader y0himba shows off his Windows Vista desktop , which is sporting a transparent taskbar, Start menu, ... You put it in your path, run it, set the icon layout you want, click save, ...

Seeing a dotted square white border (Universal Focus Rectangle) around desktop icons is not a big thing. But if this occurs often & annoys you, see this post.

Flickr user joergermeister wanted a really original desktop, so he decided to make his completely transparent. That's right—the wallpaper sits in the back, but the windows, alerts, and other ...

How to change your desktop icons on a Windows PC. Things get a bit trickier if you're using Windows. First of all, you can't individually change every desktop icon — you can only change folders, ...