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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Friday, January 4, 2002 at 8:13 am
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Posted by Pete Neveu (1 messages posted)





On Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 3:33 pm, Chad English wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?:

> >The "Disappear" utility worked as stated. Unfortunately, it forces the icon text >to be black. My desktop background picture is dark enough that I can't make out >the text. > >I tried changing the icon text color in the Display Properties, Appearance tab, Item: >Icon, but the color option is not available. I tried indirectly to change it by >setting the Item: Desktop to black. This did make the text white, but unfortunately >it overrides the "Disappear" utility. Disappear only seems to work by forcing the >background to white, and consequently the text to black. > >Is there any way to force the icon text to white (or other color) while making the >background transparent? > >




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Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Chad English: Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 3:33 pm)

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-Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Chad English: Sun, Sep 30, 2001, 3:33 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Carl Soard: Sun, Sep 30, 2001, 3:48 pm)
-another one... (Curt R: Sun, Sep 30, 2001, 8:24 pm)
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*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Neely: Tue, Jan 4, 2005, 1:04 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (nauduri sastry: Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 5:22 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (scwizard: Fri, Jun 23, 2006, 2:57 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Brian Rudolph: Tue, Oct 2, 2001, 12:00 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Pete Neveu: Fri, Jan 4, 2002, 8:13 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Stu Greaves: Tue, May 7, 2002, 2:11 am)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Zal: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 3:00 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Des: Mon, Jan 5, 2004, 8:39 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (brian: Tue, Jan 4, 2005, 10:51 pm)
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