Windows 10: removing desktop icon shadow

This is a bug that Microsoft has protected for >5 years.

"We are glad that you have chosen Windows 10. I can understand that you are facing some concern regarding personalization of your desktop. Please let me help you. July 2015" No Help at all.

I never asked for a shadow hanging over my life on Windows, but some teenage vandals in Microsoft think this grafiti looks good. The text below the icons is nearly unreadable. "Clever" - what?


None of the work arounds suggested by volunteers work why does Microsoft rely on volunteers to do their dirty work?. Microsoft staff are noticable by their absence in the "Community" to solve this problem.


Can we have a solution to this bug - soon?

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Removing desktop icons

the icons are located in 'all users' folder somewhere (for example, i see a few shared icons in "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" )

The only way to fix those, is to remove the icons from there, and place them on to each users desktops manually. an admin may need to do this.

 

Remove Linux Desktop Icons

I am not sure whether this will work (Ubuntu does not have icons like that on the desktop by default), but I suggest opening the trash bin and sweeping the icons into the window showing the trash bin.

 

Removing desktop icons

I want to remove some Icons from my desktop, but Vista asks for Admin permission to continue (I'm not an admin *Frown ).
It seems that whenever I delete one of these icons from my desktop, it is also removed from all the other user accounts. For example, I deleted the Skype icon from my desktop, and it was then removed from everyone elses as well.
How can I delete icons from my desktop only, without affecting anyone elses?