budgora Posted September 12, 2004 Posted September 12, 2004 How do I make the text background for my desktop icons transparent ? I have installed my own desktop wallpaper and the text box surrounding all the icons has a blue background. I need the background to go away!! Aaron
XPero Posted September 12, 2004 Posted September 12, 2004 Right-click in My computer>properties>advanced>performance-settings>visual effects>make sure you have "use drop shadows for con labels in desktop".Note: all of the above will work supposing you are running Windows XP
budgora Posted September 12, 2004 Author Posted September 12, 2004 Unfortunately this did not work. I found a script that does what I wish, but it works on my laptop only, not the desktop I am trying to have it work on. The only difference I can discern between the desktop and laptop computers is that the former first loads the normal windows desktop and icons and then switches to the new wallpaper and icons; the laptop only loads the new wallpaper and icons and when running the script eliminates the shadow. Any other suggestions? How do I eliminate Windows from first loading its desktop wallpaper initially?
XPero Posted September 12, 2004 Posted September 12, 2004 Maybe it has to do with Active desktop, but i cant help you in this. sorry
Halzions Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 ok i registered and everything just to tell Xpero i love you! you dont know how long ive been trying to get the color behind my icons to go away i have searched everywhere to and never found it then finally when i am looking for desktop icons i stumble across these forums and begin to look around and i happen to read your posts and i tryed it and it WORKED! thank you so much i think i will read some more to maybe find more interesting stuff
XPero Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 @Halzions: We are here for many reasons, but the most important one is to help each other. Helping you has been a pleasure Here in MSFN you will find incredible stuff and you will learn a lot about computers as I do everyday
vzmol Posted June 1, 2006 Posted June 1, 2006 I had a problem with icon text transparency for months. I've finally found out what was the problem. Today! After months of suffering... the rectangles around text made me ill. May sound funny but you look at it every day. I haven't find solution anywhere on the net... it is only milion times the same - through performance>...I wanted to reinstal windows...And - now "active desktop" term hit my eye. Interesting. I'm launching "help and tech support" in windows, to find out how to configure active desktop. And the problem was there! At last my desktop is nice again. Drop shadows everywhere, ooooh.well, here is what I did:right click on desktop>prop.>desktop>customize>web>uncheck all squares, in my case there was kind of link to my current wallpaperthen everything works! Gosh, I'm so happy. Well, maybe I'm stupid not to know this, but, whatever. Here it is. And it's so simple it hurts...Note: the terms may be a little inaccurate, I don't have english version of Windows
slimzky Posted June 1, 2006 Posted June 1, 2006 (edited) just want to share this, those square borders around desktop fonts tend to appear if u try to set a GIF image as wallpaper Edited June 1, 2006 by slimzky
preacher41 Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 IF YOU GET A PROGRAM CALLED ICONOID (WHICH IS FREE ) IT WILL DO WHAT YOU WANT,RON]
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