Transparent Icons

[thatguy]

Hi

whenever I set any image as a wallpaper, I cannot get trasparent icons.
There is always that bacground colour around them. It looks awful.

Solution?

WinXP

 

[John Corliss]

Hi

whenever I set any image as a wallpaper, I cannot get trasparent icons.
There is always that bacground colour around them. It looks awful.

Solution?

WinXP

Check to see if you have Active Desktop enabled. If you do, most
programs that remove that background colour won't work. You are using
such a program, aren't you? If not, try:

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~ladi/e_hook.html
http://www.sillysot.com/

I don't use any of those programs (I use a no-longer-free PC World
utility), so I can't tell you how good they are.