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re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 6:50 am
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Posted by RevJPFunk (1 messages posted)

This happened to me (along with a slew of other problems) when I plugged my machine into a projector at a conference . . . dumb; I know better! Anyway, this fix worked perfectly . . . stupid, stupid Windows . . .


On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 1:19 pm, Mark Bishop wrote:
>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:
re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (Mark Bishop: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 1:19 pm)

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*re: Cannot get desktop icons transparent - need activedesktop on & pref. drop shadows off. (masai: Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 9:52 pm)

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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)
-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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