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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Monday, January 5, 2004 at 8:39 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Des
(3 messages posted)
There is or was a small freeware program "transtext" that allowed you to match the
background colour and also to choose the text colour. I had used on my old system
running Win98.
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?:
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>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.
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>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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