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re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Daniel
(1 messages posted)
Hey thanks!! This worked perfectly.. me= 1 (countless times), trojan=0
:)
On Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 9:23 am, Jason wrote:
>If you have tried everything already mentioned and still cannot get your icons to
>have transparent you may want to try this.
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>Change following reg keys to a value of 0
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>User Key:
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>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
>Explorer]
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>System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
>Explorer]
>Value Name: ForceActiveDesktopOn
>Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
>Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = enabled)
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>This is what did it for me. Something, I don’t know what was changing this value
>to 1 on my system. Once I set this to 0 I had my drop shadows back.
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