Background behind icon name on destop

M

mmh2345

How do I set the background behind an icon name to be transparent? Currently
it is showing as blue, which looks bad against my desktop picture. I would
like to see just the words on top of the picture.

Thanks!
 
M

MBurch

You can not do that. The background color you are seeing is the desktop color
under your desktop wallpaper, if you change the desktop color to a color
similar to the major color of your wallpaper you will get a 'transparent'
appearance.
 
M

mmh2345

Thanks for your comments. I have definitely had it before, so it is do-able.
I have just had a new computer installed, so I suspect it has something to
do with that. What I want to see is just the name of the icon, with a clear
background, and no colour behind it.
 
B

Bob I

You can't do that in Office, maybe you are thinking about some feature
of the Windows operating system?
 
P

Paul N

Hi, I think I know what your tring to do, try this:-

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, (un tick if it is ticked already, and click Ok.
 
M

mmh2345

Paul - that's exactly it!! Thank you so much - now my desktop looks so much
better.

Cheers!
 
E

Eddie

Hi I have tried this but it does not work for me. I hate the blue background
to the writing and the icons. I have just installed windows XP on my other
computer and its fine on that. Surely I wont have to reinstall on here.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Regards Eddie
 
U

udayrebel

hi,

I too had this problem..& got rid of that

* Right click on My computer
* Click properties
* Go to advanced tab.
* Under Perfomance click Settings
*Under Visual Effect
*Use Adjust for Best Appearance
*Apply.
=>Probably this works if not check or uncheck some shadow boxes an
then apply..
 
A

ARum4Me

Hey...Paul...you rock. I've had this problem for some time and th
control panel, system properties fixed it!
Thanks so much.
Loi
 

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