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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Friday, April 16, 2004 at 5:29 am
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Posted by ivan (4 messages posted)


This is most annoying, as others in this chain, "out of the blue" my Win XP desktop icons acquired a blue box around the text. None of the suggested remedies helped. Anybody has a magic cure?


On Sunday, August 31, 2003 at 4:56 am, Curt R wrote:
>

The easiest solution I've found is to simply put one space in the text box (ie:
>right click on the icon and choose "rename" and hit the space bar once...then enter).
> You still have a small spot there under the icon, but with the use of the Transparent
>app, you can't see it unless the icon is highlighted.
>
>


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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Curt R: Sunday, August 31, 2003 at 4:56 am)

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*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Richard Bean: Saturday, May 21, 2005 at 5:33 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (warren: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 4:04 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (zvehn: Sat, Aug 30, 2003, 1:01 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Curt R: Sun, Aug 31, 2003, 4:56 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (ivan: Fri, Apr 16, 2004, 5:29 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Richard Bean: Sat, May 21, 2005, 5:33 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (warren: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 4:04 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Bill: Sun, Aug 26, 2007, 10:00 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Blarnoosti: Mon, Oct 11, 2004, 6:19 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Geordie: Tue, Nov 2, 2004, 5:04 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Somaiah Kumbera: Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 6:53 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Anil: Thu, Jun 30, 2005, 8:55 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Morris: Sun, Jul 16, 2006, 12:27 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (bambino: Tue, Dec 7, 2004, 4:44 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (warren: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 4:19 pm)
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