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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There are a lot of utilities around to make the icon text background transparent but for me I like Wallpaper Changer
which in addition to changing the background it also will make the text background transparent and will set the text color to a color that will show up or allow you to set the color that you want. It will even hide your icons if you want.

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Another utility that does the same job is Transparent




On Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 3:48 pm, Carl Soard wrote:
>There are a lot of utilities around to make the icon text background transparent
>but for me I like Wallpaper Changer

>which in addition to changing the background it also will make the text background
>transparent and will set the text color to a color that will show up or allow you
>to set the color that you want. It will even hide your icons if you want.

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You can use this program:
http://www.tribeftw.com/downloads/TransparentIcons.exe
You can pass in as a command line switch any of these colors:
Red
Green
Blue
Black
White
Magenta
Cyan
Yellow
Or you can pass in the value of any color you can find.
For example: Red = &hff
so it would be "TransparentIcons.exe &hff"

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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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There is a neat little utility called TransText that allows you to specify the colours of icon background and icon text. It requires no special DLL's and is only 32k. It sits in the Startup folder and remembers the last settings. - Set and forget.

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just use transtext. Its free, uses less than 1% of a 500MHz cpu resources and you can change the background color or make it transparent and you can choose any color for the font!

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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?:

>
>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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Wow, that help - and it was so easy! Thanks!


On Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 3:48 pm, Carl Soard wrote:
>There are a lot of utilities around to make the icon text background transparent
>but for me I like Wallpaper Changer

>which in addition to changing the background it also will make the text background
>transparent and will set the text color to a color that will show up or allow you
>to set the color that you want. It will even hide your icons if you want.

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that link for transparent may not work anymore .
try this one


http://www.computerhope.com/download/win98.htm

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transtext is at 



http://www.realityrift.com/applications/transtext/

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Try this: http://se-ed.net/echosoft/content.php?id=downloads

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making icon text background can be done through registry hacking. just ask wallpaper changer to make it transparent now import the registry. now ask it to set it opaque and once again export registry to another file FC these two files and do the combinations and tell me the result :-)

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Didn't work. I tried it. It says the two files are the same.


On Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 5:22 pm, nauduri sastry wrote:
>making icon text background can be done through registry hacking. just ask wallpaper
>changer to make it transparent now import the registry. now ask it to set it opaque
>and once again export registry to another file FC these two files and do the combinations
>and tell me the result :-)

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