Active Desktop Issue

[Guest carolinaadi]

My wife was on our computer yesterday and somehow pressed a button that she

does not remember that has made all of the background text under each icon on

our desktop turn black.

 

Has she actived/deactived something in XP?

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Active Desktop Issue

 

The text color is determined by the background color, Light colors will

have black, dark colors will have white, it's automatic.

 

carolinaadi wrote:

> My wife was on our computer yesterday and somehow pressed a button that she

> does not remember that has made all of the background text under each icon on

> our desktop turn black.

>

> Has she actived/deactived something in XP?

>

>

[Guest carolinaadi]

Re: Active Desktop Issue

 

Bob,

Thanks for the email. I get that. However, it just randomly made the

change. It wasn't as if she manually changed it on purpose.

 

thoughts?

 

 

"Bob I" wrote:

> The text color is determined by the background color, Light colors will

> have black, dark colors will have white, it's automatic.

>

> carolinaadi wrote:

>

> > My wife was on our computer yesterday and somehow pressed a button that she

> > does not remember that has made all of the background text under each icon on

> > our desktop turn black.

> >

> > Has she actived/deactived something in XP?

> >

> >

>

>

[Guest Malke]

Re: Active Desktop Issue

 

carolinaadi wrote:

> Bob,

> Thanks for the email. I get that. However, it just randomly made the

> change. It wasn't as if she manually changed it on purpose.

> "Bob I" wrote:

>

>> The text color is determined by the background color, Light colors will

>> have black, dark colors will have white, it's automatic.

>>

>> carolinaadi wrote:

>>

>> > My wife was on our computer yesterday and somehow pressed a button that

>> > she does not remember that has made all of the background text under

>> > each icon on our desktop turn black.

>> >

>> > Has she actived/deactived something in XP?

 

Are you talking about no longer having transparency behind the icon text?

 

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.

 

Obviously I can't guess what your wife did, but see if doing the above fixes

the issue.

 

Malke

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