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Re: XP: Make the Background of Your Icon Text Transparent on the Desktop | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Rocky R. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:51:11 -0000

Weirdness - this happened to my cube neighbor's desktop - it used the background color for the icon text background. I though he must have turned it off, so I went to the Control Panel, and it's CHECKED!!! I logged him off and *I* logged in (thinking it might be something funky with Windows) and mine were transparent. Yet when he went back in - he's still getting a non-transparent background for his icons, even though the Performance settings are set to use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop.

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jonah — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:18:34 -0000

Your idea is not working

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anonymous — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:54:51 -0000

LOVE YA!

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Alex — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:05:39 -0000

I've got the same problem with me icon text and tried the solution and it did not work. No matter what I do it did not work. Any other solution?

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BabyBoy — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:18:44 -0000

thank you!!! works great ))))

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Mike — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:30:51 -0000

Thanks Newboy!!!!!!!!

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Marko — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:28:23 -0000

Thank you for your help! Those icons were driving me crazy!

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Octavian — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:06:23 -0000

thanks!

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TY — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:08:03 -0000

SICK this is really cool thx

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Dee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:00:51 -0000

Doesn't work for me, eityher.
:-{

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goku — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:47:04 -0000

Hats off newboy!

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gaurav — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:58:17 -0000

awesome man ,, this tip worked so well for me. .u saved a lot time for me.. thanks

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vic — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:22:00 -0000

Iv'e tried every solution on these pages and none
of them work. Thank You

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solved — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:34:08 -0000

Thank You newboy
This resolved my issue.
Dont know why it happen. All I can remember is that I was dragging an Icon , the screen glitched and it was there.

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Iffy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:53:04 -0000

Thanks a bunch newboy. Your fix worked for me too.

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Angie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:02:24 -0000

Thank you! That was what finally worked for me. I'd already had a jpg file for a background and had use drop shadows for icons checked. :)

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anonymous — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:11:39 -0000

i've done EVERYTHING in these comments, and everything online. i even downloaded a few programs to try to fix it and NOTHING HAS WORKED! i have a toshiba tablet laptop and ever since i've had the computer i havent been able to fix the icons... but i'm guessing there's a way. any more ideas????

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Anonymous user — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:32:13 -0000

rock on....

just changing the resolution from 1280x800 to 1280x768 and then back fixed it!

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Mike — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:04:50 -0000

This one fixed it for me when the ones above did not. Thanks.

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Gia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:06:10 -0000

That was the best tip ever!!!
I was desperately seeking help all morning...for HOURS...until I tried your resolution. IT WORKED!!!!!
You are AWESOME!!!
Grazie!!!

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Siddhartha — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:50:12 -0000

Thanks it worked for me

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Mike — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:37:28 -0000

What if this solution doesn't work on the target laptop? It worked on a test PC, but not the one where I wanted it to work.

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mrGinipig — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:04:54 -0000

this actualy worked... well done Newboy..... what Newboy was trying to say was
when you select the web tab you will see a web pages dialog box, in side
the dialog there are check boxes just make sure they are un checked and
click ok then apply then ok... wella

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tropik — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:24:32 -0000

Thanks, this helped me. I have been trying to figure this out for a while

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Ryan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:39:06 -0000

Thank you Ciscomonkey. I'd tried everything else to no avail. Then I found your comment and discovered that I had indeed been using a PNG file as the wallpaper.