Icons

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Right-click on your desktop and select:


Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web (tab)
and uncheck "Lock Desktop Items", click OK and APPLY.


Also, check this setting:


Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
Properties > Advanced > Performance settings >
Visual Effects, place a check next to "Use Drop Shadows
for Icon Labels on the Desktop", then click "apply".

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups


Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/se [...] hoose.mspx

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"Ibrahim Awwad" wrote:

| Dear all,
| The background of the icons isn't transparent and the description of it (ie.
| My Computer) is having a solid background not transparent as before. Any idea
| why.??
|
| --
| *********
| IT Manager
| DeLaval Ltd.
| Cairo-Egypt
| *********
||-----------------------------|
||Islam is peace not Terror|
||-----------------------------|

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

Hi Carey,

I am have having the same problem as Ibrahim, both the below mentioned boxes
are checked yet still I am getting a background color behind my icons on my
desktop! I really cant be too sure why, as they were always working.

I have an NVIDA graphics card, could it possible be something to do with that?

Thanks

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Right-click on your desktop and select:
>
>
> Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web (tab)
> and uncheck "Lock Desktop Items", click OK and APPLY.
>
>
> Also, check this setting:
>
>
> Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
> Properties > Advanced > Performance settings >
> Visual Effects, place a check next to "Use Drop Shadows
> for Icon Labels on the Desktop", then click "apply".
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
> Microsoft Newsgroups
>
>
> Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/se [...] hoose.mspx
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Ibrahim Awwad" wrote:
>
> | Dear all,
> | The background of the icons isn't transparent and the description of it (ie.
> | My Computer) is having a solid background not transparent as before. Any idea
> | why.??
> |
> | --
> | *********
> | IT Manager
> | DeLaval Ltd.
> | Cairo-Egypt
> | *********
> ||-----------------------------|
> ||Islam is peace not Terror|
> ||-----------------------------|
>