Zfactor Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 I was wondering of anybody knows how to make it so that the text under an icon on the desktop has a background (like plain black text and a whie background or vice versa). I can not seem to find the option.thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 It uses your desktop colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zfactor Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Right that is what I thought, but for some reason when I select a color it does not apply it to the icon, unless I have not selected an image for the background, but then what good is that? Here is a screen shot that shows what I am talking about (the bg color is set to a greenish color, but it does not appear behind the text) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 It does on my desktop; see cut-out below. Is there another option that needs to be set...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 TweakUI, perhaps? Google shows a number of little apps that can make desktop text background transparent, so there must be a way to remove it.By default the BG is desktop color, as Scarecrow Man says. You must have somehow tweaked into transparent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 I think it has something to do with Drop Shadows on icon text; have another look at Google. (I cannot test it for you -- I am on Win2K right now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 I think there is a facility in Tweak UI (or one of the other Windows Powertoys) to do this. I can't check as I don't have it installed now but I do remember making alterations on past machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Right click "My Computer" Icon, choose properties/advanced tab/and click on the settings button under "Performance" (Top one). Performance options window will open. click on the "Visual effects" tab and scroll down to the bottom, remove the tick from "Use drop shadows for Icon labels on the desktop" Click on apply, you will now have a rectangular box with a background colour.Click OK then exit. Right click on your desktop/properties and choose the background colour for the boxes from there as normal. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zfactor Posted December 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Excellent, that did it. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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