re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 1:07 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DeBeast (1 messages posted) You are a god! Thats been annoying me for a least 24 hours!!!! 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) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 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: (satish: Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 6:29 am) 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: (David: Sat, Jan 3, 2009, 11:32 am) 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: (Charles: Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 8:23 pm) solved problem!! (matt: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 11:29 am) 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) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect (Moose: Sat, Sep 13, 2008, 5:52 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (llamaza: Fri, Feb 29, 2008, 9:49 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (TJ: Fri, Sep 26, 2008, 1:06 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (David: Sat, Jan 3, 2009, 11:02 am) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (i_r: Thu, Mar 5, 2009, 8:04 pm) re: If the ''use drop shadows for icon labels'' option has no effect: (Dave: Sat, Mar 7, 2009, 10:26 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum