'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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