Windows 10: Icons seems to have a shadow

I'm running Windows 10, and I seem to have a problem that I noticed this morning. My icons, mouse pointer, and as I'm typing this post, even my text, for reason have a shadow to them(See image).





I disabled transparency, and I went to advanced settings > system properties > Performance > settings and selected Adjust for best performance (No transparency selected). Not sure what else to do. I restarted my monitor to normal settings(I thought it was monitor, because I checked the admin account and the effect is still there).

:)

 

Mysterious reset icon in taskbar

I appreciate the help but I seem to have fixed it. It was nvidia shadow lay that was Makinf the icon.

 

Desktop icon labels have drop shadows

On my Windows 10 Desktop, the text under icons has an unpleasant shadow. I cannot seem to remove the drop shadows. There is a checkbox (in Advance System Settings), and I have carefully unchecked it, and restarted my PC. But the drop shadows under the
icon labels persist. I was able to get rid of the drop shadows in Windows 7 quite easily. But so far, I can't accomplish the same task in Windows 10. Any help?

 

These perhaps?

 

Problem is, I have none of these checked, as a matter of fact, on this very dialog box, no options are selected.

 

At first I could not see any shadow but on magnifying your clip I could see a very small one. My desktop is the same. In my comp. both the encircled settings are also off. Perhaps Windows displays a tiny shadow by default, unchangable.

 

With those options unchecked, with the Creator's build I see



checked:

 

Dalchina: How to get to these options please? I got to them once using a search term (I forget what) (I am on current Creators.) I tried other search terms under "Control Panels" and also looked at all the many CP titles but no luck

It is annoying the way Microsoft changes the titles of help files like these from time to time.

 

Only changed "Show shadows under mouse pointer"

Off:





On:

 

Perhaps the easiest way might be to type
Advanced System
in Cortana's search bar

&
System
gets you 1 step before that

 

That's quite true, if you know that's what it is. That's why I put the step-by-step.

 

I just did that. Post #8.

 

See in this screenshot, you can see the shadow of the e behind Recycle bin (in the before and after), is that normal?

 

May be the font I'm using.