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re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Monday, July 3, 2006 at 10:45 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul
(1 messages posted)
Desktop/Display properties/Customize desktop/Web uncheck "Lock desktop items"
On Monday, May 8, 2006 at 6:33 am, jessica wrote:
>Great. :)
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>I tried both of the ideas below just the other day and BOTH failed. Frustrating!
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>However...
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>I recreated the profile (c:\documents & settings\username)
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>*Note, these steps below are fairly big changes, don't try it if you're not confident*
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>Start by restarting the computer, logging on with a different username using a different
>profile (ie, administrator) (if you are the administrator, this isn't good practice,
>create a new account and give it admin rights - log on and you'll have a fresh account
>to play with. If you are missing settings follow steps below to restore them.)
>Rename your usual profile folder by adding the word old to it or something. To keep
>most settings don't delete this profile!
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>Log off.
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>Log on with the usual username and it will generate a fresh profile.
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>(To restore certain settings you log off and back on with the Admin account. Copy
>(NOT CUT) the OLD Application Data folder within the old profile over into the new
>one. (ie Adobe, Microsoft settings will be restored etc)) There might be other folders
>you can use to restore settings like Favorites, Desktop Items etc. Be careful, you
>dont want to copy over too many system folders you might transfer the problems over
>too.
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>Log off and log back on and see how it goes.
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>If all else fails and it doesn't work, you can log off once again, log on as Admin
>and rename the old profile folder back to it's original name and remove the new
profile
>altogether. Log back on & you are back to working normally.
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>This reset a lot of things for the profile overall, but fixed the icon's text background
>on the desktop which can be quite frustrating.
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>Goodluck!
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