re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Sunday, August 18, 2002 at 10:21 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JmC
(14166 messages posted)
'Transparent'
Same thing only different!
JmC
On Sunday, August 18, 2002 at 8:16 pm, Ed wrote:
>I have a comment about How
>do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?:
>
>"Note: in all versions of Windows, Microsoft provides no way to change the color
>of the text under desktop icons"
>
>This is in fact not true. There is a program called Desktop Architect that allows
>you to do just that. Well, sort of. It only allows you to choose from the colors
>that have already been assigned to other items listed in the Appearance tab of Desktop
>Properties. I'm not sure how he got it to work, but this must be an unavoidable
>limitation. Unfortunately, the program is no longer being supported and the website
>is gone, but the last release can be found at www.themedoctor.com/da.shtml
>This feature can be set by going to the Tools menu, select Options, go to the Advanced
>tab and check "Draw desktop icon text with". Here you can also set the option to
>make the background of icon text trasparent as well. Even though it is no longer
>supported it's still one of the best!
>
>This program is supposed to support 95, 98, Me, and 2000, but I've only tested it
>with 98 and 2000.
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