Desktop Windows 7

My boyfriend installed Windows 7 on his PC today, and he can’t see the text in his desktop icons very well. We want to know how to change the background color to solid black instead of the current transparent, like we can in XP.

Thanks for any help. 🙂
In response to “right-click the desktop and click personalize”, we have done this and still not found an option to change the background color of desktop icon text.