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Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 7:50 pm
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Posted by Jim (5 messages posted)

Another solution is to make your desktop background a solid color. Then go to Display Properties, Appearance, Advanced & select Desktop. Change Color 1 to the same color as your desktop.

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: Thursday, November 1, 2001 at 6:12 am)

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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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re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!! Yes!! Thanks!!!!! (daisy: Tue, May 23, 2006, 11:02 am)

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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re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (dirk: Sun, Sep 9, 2007, 6:50 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jason Hargreaves: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 3:50 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (One cool guy!: Sat, Feb 15, 2003, 4:26 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (A Rao: Tue, Sep 2, 2003, 12:15 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Nicetry: Tue, Sep 30, 2003, 2:32 pm)

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re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Rebecca: Wed, May 18, 2005, 8:16 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Adie: Sat, Jun 4, 2005, 3:10 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 3:58 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Khiz: Fri, Jul 11, 2008, 6:36 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (murali: Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:21 pm)

'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)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 6:47 am)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (l3ft3r1s: Sat, Apr 29, 2006, 7:10 pm)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (Bruce Jeans: Sun, Jun 11, 2006, 6:33 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jim: Thu, Oct 13, 2005, 7:50 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (ryan: Sun, Jun 18, 2006, 8:45 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (James: Tue, Nov 28, 2006, 10:07 am)

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