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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 7:01 pm
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Posted by Luis A (1 messages posted)

Thank you! Finally something that actually worked...

On Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 4:00 pm, Fabio R. V. wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?:

>
>Go to Start Menu --> Run --> regedit.exe

(be careful when using this, if you
>mess up with it you may need to re-install your Windows, please make a beackup of
>the registry information before continuing)

.
>
>Go to the falowing key:
>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
>
>Find: "ListviewShadow", change it to 1 (double-click it and change), close regedit
>Log-Off Windows and Log-On again or reboot it.
>
>Simple as that.
>
>

OBS: It should work for Win 9x/ME/2000 also.

Written in response to:: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Fabio R. V.: Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 4:00 pm)

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Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Fabio R. V.: Sun, Oct 31, 2004, 4:00 pm)

The Answer Is ..... (Yap: Sun, Oct 31, 2004, 4:26 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Luis A: Wed, Mar 9, 2005, 7:01 pm)

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