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Friday, May 27, 2005 at 1:28 am
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Posted by SK (1 messages posted)

The problem (Windows XP SP2) is with the active desktop. To regain transparency, simply: right click on your desktop, select properties, Desktop, Customize Desktop, Web, and uncheck ANY items listed under the Web Pages dialogue box. Apply changes and Wola!

On Thursday, November 1, 2001 at 6:12 am, Paul Humphrey wrote:
>Further to How
>do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?:

,
>none of the utilities mentioned for other versions of Windows ("transparent" etc)
>wil
>work on XP, but WindowFX wil. It does a lot of other funky things I'm
>not interested in, but it will make desktop icon text transparent.
>You can get it from
>
>http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1461983-100-5700883.html

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reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Paul Humphrey: Thu, Nov 1, 2001, 6:12 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (baddog5454: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 12:02 pm)

re: YES! That worked! Thank you! =) (Robert G.: Tue, Jul 27, 2004, 1:48 pm)

re: YES! That worked! Thank you! =) (Allan: Wed, Dec 1, 2004, 10:30 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (deardavid: Sun, Apr 13, 2008, 8:50 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Mon, Apr 14, 2008, 5:04 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (baddog5454: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 12:07 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Mike: Tue, Jul 1, 2003, 7:59 pm)

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Need Transparency with active desktop TURNED ON (S Saito: Wed, May 24, 2006, 4:47 am)

re: Need Transparency with active desktop TURNED ON (Ron: Mon, May 29, 2006, 2:56 pm)

re: Need Transparency with active desktop TURNED ON (Ron: Mon, May 29, 2006, 3:06 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (MyC sPiTTa: Wed, Dec 10, 2003, 11:49 pm)

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'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (SARao: Sat, Aug 25, 2007, 8:19 pm)

re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Mon, Oct 1, 2007, 6:30 am)

re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (SARao: Mon, Oct 8, 2007, 7:51 am)

re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Mon, Oct 8, 2007, 1:40 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Steve: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 9:41 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (SK: Fri, May 27, 2005, 1:28 am)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (eSkiSo: Fri, Jun 24, 2005, 8:55 pm)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (jon522: Mon, Jun 27, 2005, 7:10 pm)

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