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re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off.
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 7:30 pm
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Posted by cam (1 messages posted)

figured it out!
>right click
>properties
>desktop
>customize desktop
>web
>disable any web pages selected and click apply
>this should fix it

On Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 7:18 am, twynnyl wrote:
>I tried everything too. I realised it might also be in the monitor settings. Now
>I switched off my unused secondary monitor and I got them back!!

Written in response to:: re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (twynnyl: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 7:18 am)

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re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Anthony: Friday, September 14, 2007 at 6:03 am)

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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)

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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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