I have wallpaper -- four bears fishing for salmon -- on my desktop and the classical style, as opposed to that horrid xp stuff, for the start menu and taskbar. How do I get a transparent icon text and not revert to that blue and green nonsense?

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Right click my computer and select properties.
Go to the Advanced tab and then press Settings button under performance.
Here, scroll the list and select Use Drop Shadows For Icons On Desktop.

MST






On Sunday, July 6, 2003 at 9:17 am, zak wrote:
>
>I have wallpaper -- four bears fishing for salmon -- on my desktop and the classical 
>style, as opposed to that horrid xp stuff, for the start menu and taskbar.  How 
do 
>I get a transparent icon text and not revert to that blue and green nonsense?
>

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Right-click the desktop > Arrange Icons By > then make sure "Lock Web Items on Desktop" is un-checked.


On Sunday, July 6, 2003 at 9:17 am, zak wrote:
>
>I have wallpaper -- four bears fishing for salmon -- on my desktop and the classical
>style, as opposed to that horrid xp stuff, for the start menu and taskbar. How do
>I get a transparent icon text and not revert to that blue and green nonsense?
>

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change your Desktop color to your wallpaper background color... right click on your desktop > Properties > choose the Appearance tag > Item: (just under Scheme:) > Scroll the list until you reach Desktop and choose it > choose a new color for your Desktop (actually your new wallpepar color) > Apply... and it's done


On Sunday, July 6, 2003 at 9:17 am, zak wrote:
>
>I have wallpaper -- four bears fishing for salmon -- on my desktop and the classical
>style, as opposed to that horrid xp stuff, for the start menu and taskbar. How do
>I get a transparent icon text and not revert to that blue and green nonsense?
>

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This one did work for me!!! :) thanks!


On Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 5:33 pm, Armand wrote:
>change your Desktop color to your wallpaper background color...
>
>right click on your desktop > Properties > choose the Appearance tag > Item: (just
>under Scheme:) > Scroll the list until you reach Desktop and choose it > choose a
>new color for your Desktop (actually your new wallpepar color) > Apply... and it's
>done
>
>

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On Sunday, July 6, 2003 at 9:17 am, zak wrote:
>
>I have wallpaper -- four bears fishing for salmon -- on my desktop and the classical
>style, as opposed to that horrid xp stuff, for the start menu and taskbar. How do
>I get a transparent icon text and not revert to that blue and green nonsense?
>

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I tried what was mentioned, (performance settings) and although it has worked 
in the past, this time it didn't work for me.


However, this did! :)


Disable active desktop.

Right click blank area of desktop => click properties => 
Desktop tab => click Customize Desktop => Web Tab

Make sure all items listed in the box are unchecked.


Happy viewing!  :)


Jess








On Sunday, July 6, 2003 at 9:17 am, zak wrote:

>

>I have wallpaper -- four bears fishing for salmon -- on my desktop and the classical 

>style, as opposed to that horrid xp stuff, for the start menu and taskbar.  How 
do 

>I get a transparent icon text and not revert to that blue and green nonsense?

>
 

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You are the man!. Sweet solution. The active desktop is crippled by the web stuff. What a crapper, but great solution. Way to got. David


On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 5:10 am, jessica wrote:
>I tried what was mentioned, (performance settings) and although it has worked
>in the past, this time it didn't work for me.
>
>
>However, this did! :)
>
>
>Disable active desktop.
>
>Right click blank area of desktop => click properties =>
>Desktop tab => click Customize Desktop => Web Tab
>
>Make sure all items listed in the box are unchecked.
>
>
>Happy viewing! :)
>
>
>Jess
>
>
>
> www.3dshoes.com

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Thanks Jessica, this worked for me, after trying all the other stuff mentionned above!


On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 5:10 am, jessica wrote:
>I tried what was mentioned, (performance settings) and although it has worked
>in the past, this time it didn't work for me.
>
>
>However, this did! :)
>
>
>Disable active desktop.
>
>Right click blank area of desktop => click properties =>
>Desktop tab => click Customize Desktop => Web Tab
>
>Make sure all items listed in the box are unchecked.
>
>
>Happy viewing! :)
>
>
>Jess
>
>
>
>

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Thanks much this helped when nothing elts did :D


On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 5:10 am, jessica wrote:
>I tried what was mentioned, (performance settings) and although it has worked
>in the past, this time it didn't work for me.
>
>
>However, this did! :)
>
>
>Disable active desktop.
>
>Right click blank area of desktop => click properties =>
>Desktop tab => click Customize Desktop => Web Tab
>
>Make sure all items listed in the box are unchecked.
>
>
>Happy viewing! :)
>
>
>Jess
>
>
>
>

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Great. :)

I tried both of the ideas below just the other day and BOTH failed. Frustrating!

However...

I recreated the profile (c:\documents & settings\username)

*Note, these steps below are fairly big changes, don't try it if you're not confident*

Start by restarting the computer, logging on with a different username using a different 
profile (ie, administrator) (if you are the administrator, this isn't good practice, 
create a new account and give it admin rights - log on and you'll have a fresh account 
to play with. If you are missing settings follow steps below to restore them.)
Rename your usual profile folder by adding the word old to it or something. To keep 
most settings don't delete this profile!

Log off.

Log on with the usual username and it will generate a fresh profile.

(To restore certain settings you log off and back on with the Admin account. Copy 
(NOT CUT) the OLD Application Data folder within the old profile over into the new 
one. (ie Adobe, Microsoft settings will be restored etc)) There might be other folders 
you can use to restore settings like Favorites, Desktop Items etc. Be careful, you 
dont want to copy over too many system folders you might transfer the problems over 
too.

Log off and log back on and see how it goes.

If all else fails and it doesn't work, you can log off once again, log on as Admin 
and rename the old profile folder back to it's original name and remove the new profile 
altogether. Log back on & you are back to working normally.

This reset a lot of things for the profile overall, but fixed the icon's text background 
on the desktop which can be quite frustrating.

Goodluck!









On Thursday, May 4, 2006 at 4:43 pm, Nihilism wrote:

>Thanks much this helped when nothing elts did :D

>

>

> 

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Desktop/Display properties/Customize desktop/Web uncheck "Lock desktop items"


On Monday, May 8, 2006 at 6:33 am, jessica wrote:
>Great. :)
>
>I tried both of the ideas below just the other day and BOTH failed. Frustrating!
>
>However...
>
>I recreated the profile (c:\documents & settings\username)
>
>*Note, these steps below are fairly big changes, don't try it if you're not confident*
>
>Start by restarting the computer, logging on with a different username using a different
>profile (ie, administrator) (if you are the administrator, this isn't good practice,
>create a new account and give it admin rights - log on and you'll have a fresh account
>to play with. If you are missing settings follow steps below to restore them.)
>Rename your usual profile folder by adding the word old to it or something. To keep
>most settings don't delete this profile!
>
>Log off.
>
>Log on with the usual username and it will generate a fresh profile.
>
>(To restore certain settings you log off and back on with the Admin account. Copy
>(NOT CUT) the OLD Application Data folder within the old profile over into the new
>one. (ie Adobe, Microsoft settings will be restored etc)) There might be other folders
>you can use to restore settings like Favorites, Desktop Items etc. Be careful, you
>dont want to copy over too many system folders you might transfer the problems over
>too.
>
>Log off and log back on and see how it goes.
>
>If all else fails and it doesn't work, you can log off once again, log on as Admin
>and rename the old profile folder back to it's original name and remove the new profile
>altogether. Log back on & you are back to working normally.
>
>This reset a lot of things for the profile overall, but fixed the icon's text background
>on the desktop which can be quite frustrating.
>
>Goodluck!
>
>
>
>
>

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Hi Jess, You are an angel! I was so annoyed by the background color which I inadvertently created on a busy day ... this has never happend to me in years of keyboarding. Thanks for saving my sanity and returning my desktop to it former condition. :) Aloha, Pakalana


On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 5:10 am, jessica wrote:
>I tried what was mentioned, (performance settings) and although it has worked
>in the past, this time it didn't work for me.
>
>
>However, this did! :)
>
>
>Disable active desktop.
>
>Right click blank area of desktop => click properties =>
>Desktop tab => click Customize Desktop => Web Tab
>
>Make sure all items listed in the box are unchecked.
>
>
>Happy viewing! :)
>
>
>Jess
>
>
>
>

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Thank you Jess! I have been looking EVERYWHERE for a solution for transparency so that my icons don't look like garbage...this WORKED!


On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 5:10 am, jessica wrote:
>I tried what was mentioned, (performance settings) and although it has worked
>in the past, this time it didn't work for me.
>
>
>However, this did! :)
>
>
>Disable active desktop.
>
>Right click blank area of desktop => click properties =>
>Desktop tab => click Customize Desktop => Web Tab
>
>Make sure all items listed in the box are unchecked.
>
>
>Happy viewing! :)
>
>
>Jess
>
>
>
>

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