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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 6:54 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Todd
(7 messages posted)
There is a known bug with XP that if you have active desktop enabled then the icons
loose their "transparancy". I forgot the Knowledge base id number with this issue
but Microsoft is aware of it. I would suspect that it is a low priority on thier
fix list. I wish they would.
Todd
On Thursday, March 13, 2003 at 8:27 am, Michael wrote:
>For some reason or another, Windows XP sometimes forgets certain settings, and transparent
>text on the desktop seems to be one of them.
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>If you have tried the two most popular steps of making sure 'drop shadows' is enabled
>in System properties-Advanced-Performance-Visual Effects, and making sure that 'Lock
>items on desktop' is NOT enabled, then do this.
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>Lock all your items on the desktop. Then, go into your system properties and disable
>'drop shadows' then click apply.
>
>Once you do this, go ahead and unlock your desktop icons, and go back into system
>properties and re-enable drop shadows and then click apply.
>
>In all liklihood, you should have transparent text on your desktop now.
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