?? ugly solid background to desktop icon titles ??

[Guest]

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My daughter has her own desktop/account on my computer (Win XP home O/S) and
I have four and my wife also has hers.. and somehow my daughter has created
solid black backgrounds to all her desktop icon names or titles.

None of us has ever had this before and I can find no switch or option
anywhere that I can change her icon titles back to their 'normal'
(transparent?) mode.

Anyone have a clue what is going on here and can guide me to where I can
make the switch from ugly back to normal mode for my daughter?

ANY hints.. tips.. advice.. etc truly appreciated.

Thank you..........
from...

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[Touch Base]

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| My daughter has her own desktop/account on my computer (Win XP home O/S) and
| I have four and my wife also has hers.. and somehow my daughter has created
| solid black backgrounds to all her desktop icon names or titles.
|
| None of us has ever had this before and I can find no switch or option
| anywhere that I can change her icon titles back to their 'normal'
| (transparent?) mode.
|
| Anyone have a clue what is going on here and can guide me to where I can
| make the switch from ugly back to normal mode for my daughter?
|
| ANY hints.. tips.. advice.. etc truly appreciated.
|
| Thank you..........
| from...
|
| shade$
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Right click 'My Computer', Advanced, Performance - Click on Settings, under
Visual Effects scroll down and click on 'Use drop shadows for icons on the
desktop' You should be back to the look you are after.


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Touch Base
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[Guest]

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Hi Touchbase..

Thanks for your effort to help out. Unfortunately it wasn't just a simple
drop shadow switch. However.. what I have figured out since I first posted
is that Gabrielle has set the desktop color to black and the picture she has
on her desktop is a 'band' across the center.. with black 'bands' across the
top and bottom of the picture. The icons and titles on the black desktop
'bands' are showing the titles OK without any problem naturally. The only
area where these solid black backgrounds to the icon titles show up.. is on
the area occupied by the picture. So I'm guessing that wherever the icon
titles are on the picture.. somehow they punch a hole in the picture and so
the desktop color shows through.. creating the impression that the titles
have solid black backgrounds which 'appear' to be sitting 'on top of' the
picture itself. All too technical for me. I don't bother with pictures on
my desktop so I didn't twig to it till now.

Having said that.. my wife also has a picture (full screen) on her desktop
and her icon titles don't punch holes in that. The titles are 'transparent
in that you can see the picture behind the text.. so I'm at a loss to know
what is making the transparency possible on my wife's desktop and not on
Gabrielle's desktop.

Any other thoughts on this would be appreciated as I agree with Gabrielle in
that it isn't a good look on her desktop right now : )

I'm sure if it can work on my wife's desktop it can also be made to work on
Gabrielle's dt.. but where does MS hide the switch or whatever is the
question.

It would be a big help if MS were to have a visual adjustment section where
you could go and set up screen items such as the desktop icons and titles..
instead of these text-lists with their on/off switches that you don't really
have a clue what they really mean unless you're employed by MS and live their
language and culture on a daily basis. Speed the day that Redmond finally
figures out how to make life simple once again.

Thanks Touchbase. (and anyone else who can help out here).

shade$
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