re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. Monday, September 27, 2004 at 10:11 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lincoln (1 messages posted) When the text under the icons on your desktop are not transparent, there are two things to check. First open System from the Control Panel, select the Advanced tab, and press the Settings button under the Performance header. Make sure that on the Visual Effects tab, the option Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop is selected. If this still doesn't do the trick, right-click the desktop, point to Arrange Icons By and make sure that Lock Web Items on Desktop is un-checked. 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 - >I'm reduced to setting my desktop colour to the same as a corner of my wallpaper >that my icons are hiding in Written in response to: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Patrick: Monday, May 31, 2004 at 5:52 pm) Responses to this message: re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (CMW: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 7:11 pm) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Baksai: Friday, January 7, 2005 at 5:51 am) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Mudassar: Monday, September 15, 2008 at 8:46 pm) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (raghunandan: Monday, June 22, 2009 at 7:25 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Patrick: Mon, May 31, 2004, 5:52 pm) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (jazzman: Mon, May 31, 2004, 7:36 pm) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Jason: Tue, Jul 6, 2004, 9:23 am) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (sja: Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 8:35 am) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Daniel: Wed, Jan 11, 2006, 8:55 pm) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Lincoln: Mon, Sep 27, 2004, 10:11 pm) re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. 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