Desktop Icon background

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Billy10hats

Hi everybody, i have a skight problem with the backgroung colour on
my desktop shortcut icons. They all seem to be white text on blue
background!!,is is there anyway that i can change these to be black on
translucent background,
i think this is the default ?

Many thnaks
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Billy10hats wrote:
> Hi everybody, i have a skight problem with the backgroung colour on
> my desktop shortcut icons. They all seem to be white text on blue
> background!!,is is there anyway that i can change these to be black on
> translucent background,
> i think this is the default ?

You can't natively change the color of the icon text - it will be white
or black depending on your background. For the transparency:

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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MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
 
thanks. I really messed something up earlier and lost the transparency and
didn't know why. I didn't know that I had a web page set up as the desktop,
so followed these directions and got it right again.

"Malke" wrote:

> Billy10hats wrote:
> > Hi everybody, i have a skight problem with the backgroung colour on
> > my desktop shortcut icons. They all seem to be white text on blue
> > background!!,is is there anyway that i can change these to be black on
> > translucent background,
> > i think this is the default ?
>
> You can't natively change the color of the icon text - it will be white
> or black depending on your background. For the transparency:
>
> 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
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
 
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