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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Friday, July 18, 2003 at 4:30 pm
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Posted by Daniel Pumpkin (12 messages posted)

I had this problem and I was able to fix it Even if you have the correct settings you still wont have transparency, you have to turn the transparency off then turn it back on again. Here is how I fixed this problem... right click My Computer, hit the advanced tab, then under performace, click settings, then select custom, uncheck Use drop shadows for icon labels on dekstop. apply these settings then right click your desktop and click the Desktop tab, click Customize desktop and then the web tab, check Lock Dekstop items and hit ok. Then go back and do these steps again only uncheck Lock desktop and check the Use drop shadows for desktop icons. I did this and now I have transparency again.

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Manda: Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at 12:22 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Patrick Bielen: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 1:16 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Amy Drew: Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 8:20 am)

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Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Pam: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 8:08 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (jagged ben: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 9:39 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Billy Goodson: Tue, Jun 21, 2005, 9:57 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Rob: Thu, Jan 2, 2003, 1:43 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Pam: Thu, Jan 2, 2003, 4:03 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Rob: Thu, Jan 2, 2003, 5:01 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jefferson: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 11:04 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Rob: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 2:37 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jefferson: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 9:07 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Michael: Fri, Mar 7, 2003, 3:06 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (mike: Thu, Apr 1, 2004, 9:41 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (jason: Fri, May 27, 2005, 5:35 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Heather: Tue, Oct 17, 2006, 4:55 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Rob: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 2:47 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Tijl Kindt: Sat, May 24, 2003, 6:38 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Michael: Thu, Mar 13, 2003, 8:27 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Manda: Sun, Jun 1, 2003, 8:45 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Todd: Tue, Jun 3, 2003, 9:30 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Manda: Tue, Jun 3, 2003, 10:52 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Todd: Wed, Jun 4, 2003, 9:25 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Manda: Wed, Jun 4, 2003, 12:22 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Daniel Pumpkin: Fri, Jul 18, 2003, 4:30 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Patrick Bielen: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 1:16 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (lauri: Mon, Apr 26, 2004, 5:49 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Amy Drew: Wed, Dec 7, 2005, 8:20 am)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Dakota: Sun, Dec 18, 2005, 7:15 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Nick: Sun, Jan 1, 2006, 7:24 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Ren: Mon, Jan 30, 2006, 5:00 am)

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