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re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 8:35 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by sja
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problems. By chance I found that just having the drop shadow option
set is not sufficient. If it's already set you first have to unset it and apply
the change. Then reset it and apply the change again. That worked for me.
If that still doesn't solve the problem you can also go to Control panel> user accounts
and create a new account. That should have transparent text by default. Configure
the new account to look like the old one then delete the old one.
On Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 9:23 am, Jason wrote:
>If you have tried everything already mentioned and still cannot get your icons to
>have transparent you may want to try this.
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>Change following reg keys to a value of 0
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>User Key:
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>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
>Explorer]
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>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)
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>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.
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