Icon text background

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My desktop icon text used to have a transparent background, now it's opaque
with the background colour being the colour selected in the display
settings>desktop. It only affects one account.
As no one who uses the computer knows that they actually did it or even how
they did it I don't know how to restore it to transparent. Any practical
suggestions?
I use xp pro sp2 + all updates.

 

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To remove the backgrounds from behind icon text do this:

Right-click My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Performance tab>Settings>Visual
Effects>put a checkmark beside the option "Use drop shadows for icon labels
on the desktop>Apply>OK>OK. Your screen will flicker a bit while it making
this change, but when it is finished you should have desktop icons with text
only and no background colors.

"Zilva Zanga" <mercury@solar.system.invalid> wrote in message
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> My desktop icon text used to have a transparent background, now it's
> opaque with the background colour being the colour selected in the display
> settings>desktop. It only affects one account.
> As no one who uses the computer knows that they actually did it or even
> how they did it I don't know how to restore it to transparent. Any
> practical suggestions?
> I use xp pro sp2 + all updates.
>

 

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"James Stewart" <js7247@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> To remove the backgrounds from behind icon text do this:
>
> Right-click My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Performance
> tab>Settings>Visual Effects>put a checkmark beside the option "Use drop
> shadows for icon labels on the desktop>Apply>OK>OK. Your screen will
> flicker a bit while it making this change, but when it is finished you
> should have desktop icons with text only and no background colors.
>
> "Zilva Zanga" <mercury@solar.system.invalid> wrote in message
> news:%23klV1DioFHA.2472@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> My desktop icon text used to have a transparent background, now it's
>> opaque with the background colour being the colour selected in the
>> display settings>desktop. It only affects one account.
>> As no one who uses the computer knows that they actually did it or even
>> how they did it I don't know how to restore it to transparent. Any
>> practical suggestions?
>> I use xp pro sp2 + all updates.
>>
>
>
Thanks, but it didn't work. It was already checked. Clearing/resetting the
check box didn't work either.