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re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?'
Monday, October 8, 2007 at 7:51 am
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Posted by SARao (2 messages posted)

VERY IMPORTANT: you need to be logged in using an administrator account to make these changes. 1. Dbl click "System" in control Panel to get the "System Properties" box. 2. Click the "Advanced" tab in this box. 3. In this tab, in the "Performance" section, click "Settings" button. This will produce another box named "Performance Options". This has 3 tabs. 4. Select the "Visual Effects" tab. (it is usually preselcted) 5. This tab has a white box in lower half containg a list with tiny square boxes in front. 6. Scroll down this list and "Check" (click on the tiny box till a tick mark appears within the square box. That's it.

Written in response to:: re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Monday, October 1, 2007 at 6:30 am)

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re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Monday, October 8, 2007 at 1:40 pm)

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reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Paul Humphrey: Thu, Nov 1, 2001, 6:12 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (baddog5454: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 12:02 pm)

re: YES! That worked! Thank you! =) (Robert G.: Tue, Jul 27, 2004, 1:48 pm)

re: YES! That worked! Thank you! =) (Allan: Wed, Dec 1, 2004, 10:30 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (deardavid: Sun, Apr 13, 2008, 8:50 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Mon, Apr 14, 2008, 5:04 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (baddog5454: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 12:07 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Mike: Tue, Jul 1, 2003, 7:59 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sket: Sat, Sep 20, 2003, 10:20 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (regget: Sun, Dec 19, 2004, 1:14 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (metho: Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 9:19 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (derek: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 12:29 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (The FBI: Thu, Apr 13, 2006, 5:36 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!! Yes!! Thanks!!!!! (daisy: Tue, May 23, 2006, 11:02 am)

Need Transparency with active desktop TURNED ON (S Saito: Wed, May 24, 2006, 4:47 am)

re: Need Transparency with active desktop TURNED ON (Ron: Mon, May 29, 2006, 2:56 pm)

re: Need Transparency with active desktop TURNED ON (Ron: Mon, May 29, 2006, 3:06 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (MyC sPiTTa: Wed, Dec 10, 2003, 11:49 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ozgur kasap: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 5:05 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Buckeye5: Sun, Jul 24, 2005, 11:37 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (TBap: Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 7:05 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (eSkiSo: Tue, Aug 23, 2005, 12:21 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (angelbabeok: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 4:04 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (eSkiSo: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 11:56 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (taylor: Fri, Feb 16, 2007, 10:30 am)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (murali: Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:17 pm)

re: HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (dirk: Sun, Sep 9, 2007, 6:50 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jason Hargreaves: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 3:50 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (One cool guy!: Sat, Feb 15, 2003, 4:26 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (A Rao: Tue, Sep 2, 2003, 12:15 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Nicetry: Tue, Sep 30, 2003, 2:32 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Amber: Thu, May 6, 2004, 2:15 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Rebecca: Wed, May 18, 2005, 8:16 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Adie: Sat, Jun 4, 2005, 3:10 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 3:58 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Khiz: Fri, Jul 11, 2008, 6:36 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (murali: Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:21 pm)

'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (SARao: Sat, Aug 25, 2007, 8:19 pm)

re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Mon, Oct 1, 2007, 6:30 am)

re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (SARao: Mon, Oct 8, 2007, 7:51 am)

re: 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (K. Fournie: Mon, Oct 8, 2007, 1:40 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Steve: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 9:41 am)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (SK: Fri, May 27, 2005, 1:28 am)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (eSkiSo: Fri, Jun 24, 2005, 8:55 pm)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (jon522: Mon, Jun 27, 2005, 7:10 pm)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (Alex: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 6:47 am)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (l3ft3r1s: Sat, Apr 29, 2006, 7:10 pm)

re: FINALY ANWSER HERE !! HOW TO AND HELP! (Bruce Jeans: Sun, Jun 11, 2006, 6:33 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (Jim: Thu, Oct 13, 2005, 7:50 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (ryan: Sun, Jun 18, 2006, 8:45 pm)

re: reply to 'How do I make the background of desktop icon text transparent?' (James: Tue, Nov 28, 2006, 10:07 am)

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