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re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 1:19 pm
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Posted by Mark Bishop (2 messages posted)

The solution to this BUG (Microsoft, please take note of the CAPITALISED and bold word) is quite simple when you know it (but purest hell while you don't)...

right-click your desktop, choose properties, click the desktop tab, push the 'customize desktop' button and untick or tick any of the 'desktop icons'.

Click Ok twice and presto! Windows succumbs to the power of the mouse!

Lame Microsoft, lame as usual...


Written in response to:
Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Patrick: Monday, May 31, 2004 at 5:52 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Scott: Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 1:56 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (RevJPFunk: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 6:50 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Patrick: Mon, May 31, 2004, 5:52 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (jazzman: Mon, May 31, 2004, 7:36 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Jason: Tue, Jul 6, 2004, 9:23 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (sja: Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 8:35 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Daniel: Wed, Jan 11, 2006, 8:55 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Lincoln: Mon, Sep 27, 2004, 10:11 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (CMW: Wed, Dec 15, 2004, 7:11 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Baksai: Fri, Jan 7, 2005, 5:51 am)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Srinivasan A Paul Joseph: Thu, Sep 22, 2005, 12:37 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (cubby: Mon, Oct 17, 2005, 6:23 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Alexander: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 12:54 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (vivek: Sat, Dec 31, 2005, 3:00 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Thommy Webster: Thu, Jan 5, 2006, 2:19 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. - Me too. (pile0nades: Thu, Jan 12, 2006, 12:20 pm)
-re: Soultion - Use IrfanView to change Wallpapers (pile0nades: Thu, Jan 12, 2006, 3:22 pm)
*re: Soultion - Use IrfanView to change Wallpapers (Jeff: Mon, Feb 27, 2006, 7:21 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (pile0nades: Thu, Jan 12, 2006, 1:46 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Monique: Fri, Apr 7, 2006, 7:51 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (TJ: Fri, Apr 7, 2006, 12:27 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (moncy: Sun, May 28, 2006, 7:38 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Shyju Varghese: Sun, Nov 5, 2006, 2:38 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (kartheek: Mon, Dec 4, 2006, 6:55 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (John Reilly: Mon, Jun 30, 2008, 5:07 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Amy Marie: Thu, Mar 2, 2006, 8:17 am)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Aaron: Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 4:32 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (ThaHelp: Thu, May 18, 2006, 9:12 pm)
-Real Fix for this Problem! (JrHacker: Thu, Sep 21, 2006, 1:24 pm)
-re: Real Fix for this Problem! (Jim Peneton: Sun, Nov 12, 2006, 5:18 pm)
-re: Real Fix for this Problem! (jojo: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 4:38 pm)
*re: Real Fix for this Problem! (Graham: Sat, Mar 24, 2007, 9:19 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Mark Bishop: Wed, May 23, 2007, 1:19 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Scott: Thu, May 31, 2007, 1:56 pm)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Mark Bishop: Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 2:29 am)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (twynnyl: Wed, Jul 18, 2007, 7:18 am)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (cam: Fri, Sep 7, 2007, 7:30 pm)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Anthony: Fri, Sep 14, 2007, 6:03 am)
-re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (RevJPFunk: Wed, Oct 24, 2007, 6:50 am)
*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (masai: Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 9:52 pm)
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