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re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off.
Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 9:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jason
(1 messages posted)
If you have tried everything already mentioned and still cannot get your icons to
have transparent you may want to try this.
Change following reg keys to a value of 0
User Key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer]
Value Name: ForceActiveDesktopOn
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = enabled)
This is what did it for me. Something, I don’t know what was changing this value
to 1 on my system. Once I set this to 0 I had my drop shadows back.
On Monday, May 31, 2004 at 5:52 pm, Patrick wrote:
>Can it even be done? None of the 3rd party applications have been able to do it
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>I'm reduced to setting my desktop colour to the same as a corner of my wallpaper
>that my icons are hiding in
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