Desktop Icon Text Background color

[Guest Norm Dresner]

Yes, I know this is an old issue and I Googled it until I was blind, but ...

 

I have two (very different) WindowsXP computers here -- one is a 3-year-old

Dell and the other a brand new one. One machine happily has a transparent

background for the Icon Text and the other uses the Desktop Color. Both

machines are set to the same wallpaper and I've even used the same Themes

file in both machines to make sure that those settings are the same.

 

I've set the Use Drop Shadow option in System - Advanced - Performance ----

I've even tried toggling it. I've changed the desktop color from white to

black to gray and all I can get is the desktop color as the background.

 

Once, 2 years ago, I had saved a different Themes file on the problem

computer and restoring it with no wallpaper produced what looked like a

transparent background but clearly isn't because it's just the same color as

the desktop which I proved by adding back the current wallpaper.

 

It's not the Use Drop Shadow setting problem. AFAICT there isn't anything

else that's supposed to affect this but obviously there is. I have a very

vague recollection that in the distant past -- the machine was purchased in

'02 and the hard disk replaced in '03 with a new XP load -- I made some

registry hack that affected this, but I certainly can't remember what it

might have been and I have no record of what I did.

 

I'm open to all suggestions, hints. links, and even constructive flames.

 

TIA

Norm

[Guest Norm Dresner]

Re: Desktop Icon Text Background color SOLVED!

 

Re: Desktop Icon Text Background color SOLVED!

 

To hell with Google --- the Microsoft Knowledge Base came through perfectly.

 

The problem on this computer was that on the Desktop's Properties -

Arrange menu, I had "Lock Web Items on Desktop" checked. Unchecking it did

the trick

 

Norm

 

"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message

news:n11Qj.241538$cQ1.198151@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

| Yes, I know this is an old issue and I Googled it until I was blind, but

....

|

| I have two (very different) WindowsXP computers here -- one is a

3-year-old

| Dell and the other a brand new one. One machine happily has a

transparent

| background for the Icon Text and the other uses the Desktop Color. Both

| machines are set to the same wallpaper and I've even used the same Themes

| file in both machines to make sure that those settings are the same.

|

| I've set the Use Drop Shadow option in System - Advanced -

Performance ----

| I've even tried toggling it. I've changed the desktop color from white to

| black to gray and all I can get is the desktop color as the background.

|

| Once, 2 years ago, I had saved a different Themes file on the problem

| computer and restoring it with no wallpaper produced what looked like a

| transparent background but clearly isn't because it's just the same color

as

| the desktop which I proved by adding back the current wallpaper.

|

| It's not the Use Drop Shadow setting problem. AFAICT there isn't anything

| else that's supposed to affect this but obviously there is. I have a very

| vague recollection that in the distant past -- the machine was purchased

in

| '02 and the hard disk replaced in '03 with a new XP load -- I made some

| registry hack that affected this, but I certainly can't remember what it

| might have been and I have no record of what I did.

|

| I'm open to all suggestions, hints. links, and even constructive flames.

|

| TIA

| Norm

|

[Guest Touch Base]

Re: Desktop Icon Text Background color

 

 

"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message

news:n11Qj.241538$cQ1.198151@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

> Yes, I know this is an old issue and I Googled it until I was blind, but

> ...

>

> I have two (very different) WindowsXP computers here -- one is a

> 3-year-old

> Dell and the other a brand new one. One machine happily has a

> transparent

> background for the Icon Text and the other uses the Desktop Color. Both

> machines are set to the same wallpaper and I've even used the same Themes

> file in both machines to make sure that those settings are the same.

>

> I've set the Use Drop Shadow option in System - Advanced -

> Performance ----

> I've even tried toggling it. I've changed the desktop color from white to

> black to gray and all I can get is the desktop color as the background.

>

> Once, 2 years ago, I had saved a different Themes file on the problem

> computer and restoring it with no wallpaper produced what looked like a

> transparent background but clearly isn't because it's just the same color

> as

> the desktop which I proved by adding back the current wallpaper.

>

> It's not the Use Drop Shadow setting problem. AFAICT there isn't anything

> else that's supposed to affect this but obviously there is. I have a very

> vague recollection that in the distant past -- the machine was purchased

> in

> '02 and the hard disk replaced in '03 with a new XP load -- I made some

> registry hack that affected this, but I certainly can't remember what it

> might have been and I have no record of what I did.

>

> I'm open to all suggestions, hints. links, and even constructive flames.

>

> TIA

> Norm

 

Try this:

Start - Control Panel - Display/Screen - Personalize Desktop - Web and then

delete the file you see there that is causing all the trouble

 

 

--

Touch Base

Post back here on the result- good or bad

>

[Guest Dana]

Re: Desktop Icon Text Background color

 

Thanks, I deleted the file and it turned the icon color into transluter

Dana

 

"Touch Base" wrote:

>

> "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message

> news:n11Qj.241538$cQ1.198151@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

> > Yes, I know this is an old issue and I Googled it until I was blind, but

> > ...

> >

> > I have two (very different) WindowsXP computers here -- one is a

> > 3-year-old

> > Dell and the other a brand new one. One machine happily has a

> > transparent

> > background for the Icon Text and the other uses the Desktop Color. Both

> > machines are set to the same wallpaper and I've even used the same Themes

> > file in both machines to make sure that those settings are the same.

> >

> > I've set the Use Drop Shadow option in System - Advanced -

> > Performance ----

> > I've even tried toggling it. I've changed the desktop color from white to

> > black to gray and all I can get is the desktop color as the background.

> >

> > Once, 2 years ago, I had saved a different Themes file on the problem

> > computer and restoring it with no wallpaper produced what looked like a

> > transparent background but clearly isn't because it's just the same color

> > as

> > the desktop which I proved by adding back the current wallpaper.

> >

> > It's not the Use Drop Shadow setting problem. AFAICT there isn't anything

> > else that's supposed to affect this but obviously there is. I have a very

> > vague recollection that in the distant past -- the machine was purchased

> > in

> > '02 and the hard disk replaced in '03 with a new XP load -- I made some

> > registry hack that affected this, but I certainly can't remember what it

> > might have been and I have no record of what I did.

> >

> > I'm open to all suggestions, hints. links, and even constructive flames.

> >

> > TIA

> > Norm

>

> Try this:

> Start - Control Panel - Display/Screen - Personalize Desktop - Web and then

> delete the file you see there that is causing all the trouble

>

>

> --

> Touch Base

> Post back here on the result- good or bad

> >

>

>

>