re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' Friday, January 10, 2003 at 2:37 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rob (245 messages posted) Hi, Right click on desktop. Click down to Properties, then open the Desktop tab. Click on the Customize Desktop button, then open the Web tab. Delete everything in the Web Pages box except, My Current Home Page. Press OK, then Apply, and maybe OK again. Possibly restart for settings to take effect. Should solve the problem. Good luck, Rob On Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 11:04 pm, Jefferson wrote: >I have tried ALL of these things. I have checked to make sure my desktop is not >locked. I have made sure the correct box is checked under "Use drop shadows for >icon labels on the desktop". I even tried downloading WindowsFX and checking the >appropriate box on that, and even it didn't make the boxes transparent. I can't figure >out what in the heck to do. They were transparent until I pasted an image onto my >desktop, then the colored boxes appeared. I took that image off and trashed it, >and still can't get the boxes transparent. I'm at a total loss...... > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jefferson: Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 11:04 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jefferson: Friday, January 10, 2003 at 9:07 am) re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Mike W.: Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 5:51 pm) re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (jason: Friday, May 27, 2005 at 5:35 pm) This worked for me re: desktop icon text transparent?' (Bill Molner: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 7:17 am) re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' 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