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desktop icons on windows xp
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mike
08/30/04
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my desktop icons used to just display the names underneath. now the names are in coloured boxes !! how can i get rid of the coloured boxes! of course no one knows how they got there.the only thing i have managed is to change the colour of the boxes.
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Mark
08/30/04
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Arrrgh... I've been trying to re-create this, and I haven't found the right combo yet !!
If you can choose the colour, then simply choose "transparent" (or "clear", whatever...) and it may work..
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mike
08/30/04
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i wish i could i have not got an option for transparent or clear, ahhhhhh i hate these coloured boxes!! thanx i will keep trying.
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mikeyb
08/31/04
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Hey mike,
What you are describing is typical of XP desktop that has a wallpaper on it. XP's text and background colours by default are either dark or light, there is no inbetween when you add wallpapers like pictures etc. However there are freeware applications out there that have enhanced this basic setup. A good one is called 'Transparent Desktop' and you can get it from here..
http://home.flash.net/~qsystems/
there is a nice picture ont hat site that shows what it does. Have a look and see if that is what you are after..
regards
Mikeyb
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ed
08/31/04
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* Open System Properties 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.
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Mark
08/31/04
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Holy #%$?!# Ed !!! How the hell did you find that one ??
Looked into Mikey's app ; cool !! They do mention it is best to turn off "Active Desktop".. Does XP have Active Desktop ?
Either way, Mikey gets points and donuts.. and little brother gets a freebie : Ed's web page
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mike
08/31/04
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thanx mikeyb
your tip wiv the program worked a treat.still dont know why i had the colour boxes as i have xp on another puter and it dont have colour boxes!! and no it aint got a transparent type prog.still thanx a bunch as it was doing me head in lol.
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Mark
08/31/04
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Hey Mike. You can also look at where Ed pointed, and you'll probably see that the setting there was changed...
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mike
08/31/04
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hi mark, i did take a look at ed's suggestion but it made no diff, i had this prob a long time ago but then i did a system restore which sorted it. This however is on my newbuild amd64 and i noticed it was like it after installing os, therefore unable to use system restore i was stuck and still none the wiser,howerver it is fine now and thanx again for all ya help. ps ED helped me along time ago wiv a cpu prob tualitin chip thingy thanx guys.
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Mark
08/31/04
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Hey Mike, thanks for clearing that up. Strange how this happened with a clean install though. AMD 64 huh... I wouldn't mind getting one of those myself !
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mikeyb
09/01/04
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your welcome Mike.
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