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re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect:
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 at 3:00 pm
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Posted by Jon Outram (1 messages posted)

Actually, if your still getting the background boxes after trying everything on here, its because your background isnt a JPEG...

On Friday, February 1, 2002 at 6:24 pm, Shadow D. Wolf wrote:
>Make certain that you do *not* have "Lock desktop items" enabled. You can find this
>option by going to to Display Properties, then clicking on the "Desktop" tab and
>clicking the "Customize Desktop" button (below the list of wallpapers).
>
>A second dialogue will appear, and you will need to click the "Web" tab and uncheck
>"Lock desktop items." Now your icon text should be rendered with transparent backgrounds.

Written in response to:: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Shadow D. Wolf: Friday, February 1, 2002 at 6:24 pm)

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If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Shadow D. Wolf: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 6:24 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (JJ: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 8:55 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (mualam: Thu, Jun 5, 2003, 12:32 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Bob: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 4:06 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Derek Bain: Fri, Apr 1, 2005, 11:51 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Kenneth Iversen: Sun, Jul 21, 2002, 7:50 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Roberto Racca: Wed, Apr 2, 2003, 8:34 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Tiguan: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 11:06 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Roger E. Lewandowski: Thu, May 15, 2003, 3:07 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (SaintSinner: Fri, May 23, 2003, 6:32 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Morpheus: Thu, Aug 7, 2003, 8:30 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (bliytz: Thu, Nov 20, 2003, 5:02 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (theTiger: Tue, Oct 31, 2006, 2:42 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Seleucia: Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 1:32 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (John: Mon, Sep 12, 2005, 6:09 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (rupert: Mon, Aug 21, 2006, 5:02 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (rupert: Mon, Aug 21, 2006, 5:21 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Jesh: Fri, Jun 22, 2007, 11:01 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (crazy Banana: Sat, May 6, 2006, 1:18 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Jon Outram: Tue, Mar 2, 2004, 3:00 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Martin Glass: Mon, May 17, 2004, 11:47 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Gian-Pa: Sun, Aug 1, 2004, 7:47 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Jonny: Sun, Nov 7, 2004, 1:42 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (anil: Tue, Nov 8, 2005, 3:49 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 2:03 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 2:17 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Dennis: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 9:14 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (migs212: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 1:24 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (migs212: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 1:27 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (2re: Wed, Dec 20, 2006, 1:02 am)

This works!!!! (Mulder: Fri, Mar 2, 2007, 4:57 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Barrie smart: Fri, Jul 7, 2006, 5:00 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (anon: Mon, Feb 6, 2006, 9:24 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (J. Miller: Thu, Jan 19, 2006, 8:15 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Khalid: Sun, Sep 24, 2006, 4:43 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (DeBeast: Thu, Jan 20, 2005, 1:07 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Thur: Tue, Apr 26, 2005, 4:55 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Tasos: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 6:05 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (DiGaHoLe: Tue, Jan 17, 2006, 7:55 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (John Snow: Mon, Feb 27, 2006, 2:13 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Brian: Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 7:47 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Adam Edmondson: Tue, Mar 21, 2006, 12:10 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Marshall Allen: Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 11:59 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Sean: Mon, Oct 30, 2006, 5:51 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Franck: Thu, May 24, 2007, 6:01 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Julio Alvarez: Sat, Jun 9, 2007, 10:40 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Trisha: Sun, Nov 18, 2007, 9:19 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (sooojaded: Tue, Jan 8, 2008, 4:55 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Jiramate: Sat, Feb 11, 2006, 1:23 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (bennettjc: Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 8:38 am)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Marshmallow: Mon, May 1, 2006, 1:01 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Paul: Mon, Jan 15, 2007, 8:04 am)

If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect (Karl: Fri, Oct 12, 2007, 5:20 pm)

re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect (BC: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 12:08 am)

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