- desktop text
- Posted by bsam on October 21st, 2005
On my desktop, the text under the icons is in colored blocks but on another
XP machine, the text is not in the colored blocks. It's right on the desktop
picture. What causes the difference. Thanks.
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- Posted by Alan Edwards on October 21st, 2005
Control Panel-System-Advanced-Performance Settings.
Check "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" on the Visual
Effects tab
....Alan
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:13:01 -0700, "bsam" <bsam9@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
>On my desktop, the text under the icons is in colored blocks but on another
>XP machine, the text is not in the colored blocks. It's right on the desktop
>picture. What causes the difference. Thanks.
- Posted by Malke on October 21st, 2005
bsam wrote:
> On my desktop, the text under the icons is in colored blocks but on
> another XP machine, the text is not in the colored blocks. It's right
> on the desktop picture. What causes the difference. Thanks.
Open the System applet in Control Panel, choose the Advanced tab, and
click Settings in the Performance section. Turn on the "Use drop
shadows for icon labels on the desktop option", and click Ok.
Four things are required for transparent icon backgrounds:
1) System Properties>Advanced>Performance Settings>VisualEffects - check
"use drop shadows for icon labels".
2) Right-click on Desktop ->Arrange Icons by>Lock Web items must be
cleared.
3) If you have any web content on your desktop, transparency won't work.
To check for web content: Display Properties>Desktop>Customize
Desktop>Web - make sure all checkboxes are clear.
4) Wallpaper must be an image file, not html.
Malke
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