Well after you are done messing with your windows color theme and color settings you could always ::gulp:: delete all your icons and have a black and white background immage.
I hate tons of icons - anything more than 3 is way too many for me. I just drag my start bar to be double wide and make the top row be the quicklaunch bar. I have about 35 quick launch buttons and its far cleaner.
Hey armed (and EVERYONE) Please for the love of heck read other people's responces before you respond so that you dont just repeat what someone else already said.