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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 9:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jagged ben
(3536 messages posted)
My Computer properties> Advanced tab > Performance Settings > check "Use drop shadows
for icon labels on desktop."
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 8:08 pm, Pam wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?:I have two new
>XP computers. Out of the box, the text under the icons did not have a box with a
>background color. That is, the text appeared to be right on the background graphic.
>Some software that I installed changed this by picking a background color for one
>of my machines, and now there is a rectangular box showing the background color
around
>the text on all desktop icons. My other machine (also a new XP machine with all
updates)
>does not have this problem, and I have not needed to use any special utilities of
>the type suggested by other users. I also note that the text under the icons with
>my second machine is underlined (which is OK). Can anyone tell me how to re-set
the
>options back to get the text underlined and to remove the background box around
the
>text underneathe the icons without using a special utility? I know it is possible
>to do without buying a special utility program since I am looking at my other machine
>now and there is no problem. Thanks, Pam
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