desktop icon text has no background color

My desktop icon text has no color. When I go to desktop properties and change the background color for the text, it does not change. I need some background color for the text, so I can see it.

 

color

select the "themes" tab! make a choice/apply to see. Now click on the "desktop" tab! Select a picture, browse if ness, click apply My Icon text is white so I select black under the color drop down window. Apply/ok

 

This did not work. The icon text is white so I needed up with white text and a black backgroundbox. I want white text and a transparent box.

 

text box

Geez, there is no transparent text box! May someone that uses TweakXP has the solution

 

Display properties; Appearance; Effects; Show shadow under menu.

 

sled

This doesn't make mine transparent, but then I'm using "classic" windows folders too

 

Nope, have to use xp style.
I have used Invisible before XP.

 

still have blue boxes

So far nothing has worked. I am working on a computer that came from a computer store where the text has no color boxes. The boxes are transparent. When you go to Display properties,background,and set a color from the color selector, nothing changes. You still have transparent boxes. When you go to apperrance,advanced,desktop and change it there, you still have transparent boxes, no color behind the text. Well I like the transparent boxes, so I want to do the opposite. I have the default blue boxes and want transparent. I do not want any color boxes behind the text and still can not find out how to do this. I am now determine to find out how you do this. I am an advanced user and do not like that I can not find out how to do this. I wonder if this is a registry setting that I have to change. The computer from the store is using an OEM version of Wnidows XP and I wonder if this is why they have these transparent text boxes.
The search goes on!

 

fixed

To use transparent text boxes for your desktop icons:
Go to the Control Panel
Go to Performance and Maintenance(category view)
Go to System
Go to the Advanced tab
Go to Performance/Setting
Add check to "Use drop shadow for icon lables on the desktop.

Thanks to FisHieMaN@aol.com

 

Glad you found it. Guess i was showing you the wrong shadow affect, sorry.

I carry this one step further on my machine. I like no text at all. This shows only the icon with no text under. Very clean look.

Rename the file by holding down the alt key and type 0160 and release key.

 

To sled

Thanks that was neat. Where did you find that code,0160

Do you know a way to change from the default white text to color text.

Keith

 

sled

I would like to remove the icon text.....
I tried "Rename the file by holding down the alt key and type 0160 and release key. "

I'm not able to type when holding down the alt key?
What am I doing wrong?

 

Kcooper; They are special characters.
there are some listed here.
http://www.ramsch.org/martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html

Some times they differ, for reasons I don't know.

The color box for text is greyed out for xp.
Did you try in Classic?

Arkie; The name doesn't change until your done typing.

edit: example
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/SdfFord/fox.jpg

Wow, oops that is a ME screenshot but it still applies to XP.
Let me know.

 

Sled

I am having the same problem. I still have text showing.
I right click and select rename.
I delete the present text using delete or backspaceing.
I then hold down the ATL key and type 0160
I release the ATL key and hit enter.

OK Sled what am I doing wrong.
Keith

 

I just tryed your last posted attempt and find it only works if I use the Num keypad to enter 0160 , not the other number keys?

 

richmusick

OK.. That worked fo me!

Well almost, I don't get an option to rename the Recycle Bin?

It worked on one folder icon but when I tried another it said that name was already being used.

Also icons for web sites stop working with name change or no name.

 

TweakUI to rename Recycle bin.
Multiply procedure on files that say name already used.
Exe Alt 0160, Alt 0160.....

 

sled

Slow down and provide a little more info... please.

"TweakUI to rename Recycle bin.
Multiply procedure on files that say name already used.
Exe Alt 0160, Alt 0160..... "

Do what?

How about some step by step?

 

arkie

This causes some thinking of dos days..

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui links to a site that has tweakui for XP . It is just an executable that will allow changing the recycle bin..

"Multiply procedure on files that say name already used.
Exe Alt 0160, Alt 0160....." had me scratching my head too till I remembered that EXE is Ctrl key on my computer.

I used ctrl key to tag the specific files that I wanted...... then ? ? evidently if the extensions are turned off then one of each file type can be renamed using 0160 and they remain active. If the multiple tagged files are processed. ie: Right Clk rename after tagging, the entire group can be renamed at once to 0160 except my OS adds (1) (2) (3) etc. for all except the first, so ??? now how to turn off the auto numbering, or do each one at a time.

I could not do more that one of a given filetype (.jpg, .mpg, etc)

On a small number of icons this might be helpfull but perhaps sled can take us a little further in this.

 

richmusick, Thanks


I don't have any problem renaming JPG.s and etc, for I have the Thumbs Plus software and it makes renaming image files a
snap.