re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' Sunday, August 20, 2006 at 3:32 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Prak Smita Nayak (1 messages posted) hey michael. thanx a lot...my dad tried to copy some written content directly to d desktop,n i had got d same problem...now it is solved....m rly grateful to u man!!!.. thanx On Thursday, March 13, 2003 at 8:27 am, Michael wrote: >For some reason or another, Windows XP sometimes forgets certain settings, and transparent >text on the desktop seems to be one of them. > >If you have tried the two most popular steps of making sure 'drop shadows' is enabled >in System properties-Advanced-Performance-Visual Effects, and making sure that 'Lock >items on desktop' is NOT enabled, then do this. > >Lock all your items on the desktop. Then, go into your system properties and disable >'drop shadows' then click apply. > >Once you do this, go ahead and unlock your desktop icons, and go back into system >properties and re-enable drop shadows and then click apply. > >In all liklihood, you should have transparent text on your desktop now. Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Michael: Thursday, March 13, 2003 at 8:27 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Pam: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 8:08 pm) re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (jagged ben: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 9:39 pm) re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Billy Goodson: Tue, Jun 21, 2005, 9:57 am) re: Question about 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' 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