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desktop icon transparency
If you selected a background and chose Center in the Position list box, the color fills the space around the background. * Icon Size is the icon size. Font choice, font size and Bold or Italic. * Icon Spacing (Horizontal) * Icon Spacing (Vertical) This is the spacing between icons on the Desktop or in folders with

Desktop Icon Management? *IDEA*
I managed to get in to Agent by going via Task Manager / New Task and opening my C Drive and opening Internet Explorer which brought up my Internet Connection box. So how do I get the icons restored ,guys .??? Stuart Right click on the desktop, click properties and then click the 'Desktop' tab.

Desktop Icons - Boxes
Thanks -- now I understand -- I thought he was still talking about the taskbar -- he was talking about the auto arrange for the icons on the You can even pull it right off the task bar and make a menu box or floating toolbar on the desktop. Sliding these individual toolbars around to get them situated can be

Small Icons on Desktop
Some of the icons on the desktop and dock were "fuzzy"--they had little pixilated bumps around the edges. 2.) The surface of the desktop (settings not They suggested that I take the box to the local Apple Store. (41 miles away, I guess local is a relative term.) The store ordered a new video card and a new

Tablet PC screen reformating issue...
Is it possible to protect the icons on the desktop from being deleted or moved around by mistake. This is no big security issue, just a matter of having to deliver a desktop that keeps Carl Joshi As you probably know, you could do this in Win3.x by unchecking the 'Remember Windows settings' box in the menubar.

Missing DeskTop Icons
Double-click the Default User icon, select System | Restrictions, and check all four boxes. Select Shell | Restrictions and check the four boxes whose captions begin with Remove, plus the two that say Hide All Items on Desktop and Don't Save Setting at Exit. Do not check the Disable Shut Down command.

HELP! Can't move icons on the desktop or anywhere
My old Windoze box bit the dust. I had Eudora 4.1 (purchased whenever that was the current version) set up to receive/send mail through three different accounts (that's three different icons on the desktop). This was NOT the "personalities" separation of mail received through the same address.

What is the Desktop?
I have to hard-reset the box in order to reboot. Power-up into safe mode with command prompt again, I see the exact same Classes keys are no longer in the If I close task manager, there are no icons on the desktop. Right-clicking shows no context menu, so I can't "Show desktop icons", "Arrange icons by", etc.

OSX Apple Menu like OS9 Apple Menu.... Pretty Please!!
WinKey + Pause/Break (Or system applet from the control panel) Advanced tab Performance settings Scroll down and tick the box to enable the drop shadow for icons on the desktop Or, just play around with 'em until you got what you're looking for or find something new you like... (Click OK when done) -- Galen - MS

Q: Desktop Icons & Default Fonts
The password is copied around to other memory locations as needed. Since the original password location isn't in a VxD (Windows virtual device driver), ..... Second, double-click the Network icon and then click the Identification tab. Third, click the box that is labeled Workgroup. When you click the box Workgroup,

Windows 95 Desktop: Saving layout of icons ?
Not when I single click on it but it is always white on all the icons. There use to be no color around the text. It use to be transparent so that it just blended into the desktop color but now the text around the icons are no longer transparent. There is always a box around the text under the icons on my desktop

Blaster.worm has f*ck*d up some machines - what can I do?
Putting a better icon on the Recycle Bin won't make it work like the Mac trashcan - it will still be unweildy, unreliable and limited. Replacing the icons of the hard disks won't change the fact that the entire Windows GUI is based around some bizarre system of virtual folders that appear to live on the desktop,

Log på Win98
Moving icons on the desktop is impossible. If you rightclick the LAN-connection icon and press properties you get an error. If you doubleclick the icon nothing the DCOM RPC flaw described in the MS03-026 security bulletin, and on a network where Blaster or similar DCOM RPC exploits are being fired around.

Desktop Icons - Boxes
In either case it puts an icon on the desktop and with the box checked you can move it off the desktop, I believe. Launch folder and then all you have to do is play around with sliding the quick launch bar divider around until you have it on the side you want it and you can see the show desktop shortcut.

Desktop ????????
Thomas t...@sol.dk alt windows98 Is there a way to make the boxes around the text on the icons on the desktop, transparent? When you have a picture as a backround, it could be nice, not to have those black, white or what ever color boxes! Thomas H. Win98.

Excel won't start
Right-click the desktop, then ARRANGE and turn off AUTO-ARRANGE. Move an icon you want to hide to the bottom of the screen, just below another that you want to keep. Hold the mouse left button down and draw a box around the two, then let go of the button. Left click and hold on the upper of the two icons and drag

Fuzzy Icons and Intermittent Desktop Color Changes on new dual 1Ghz G4
Just today, my Windows 2000 desktop has started to display a white box behind and around the icons on the desktop. If I restart, the problem goes away for a few minutes and then suddenly returns. Can someone help me to get back to normal? Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Regards, Frank Young tip...@wam.umd.edu

Drag and Drop
I'd say it would take about the same amount of time, and, since the OS 9 has a "Getting Started" Icon, it would be quicker from then on. Even if this imaginary "getting started" icon of yours existed (I turn on out-of-the-box Macs every single day and have yet to see this icon on the desktop), it would still take

asking help icons moving around
It's Hmm. I tried the animated backgrounds in deskpic ages ago, but they made all the icons on my desktop invisible. I think that would have to happen with any similar program because the WPS doesn't expect other programs to go round writing all over 'its' window, and theres no way to write around the icons,

SOS Uploads /6/25/01...For Beleagured Parents
For some reason, I cannot see the transparent icons floating without any color around them. I use to have a large wallpaper picture on my desktop. With the Icons overlapping on top. They looked like they were floating. Totally transparent with no color boxes around the lettering. Now for some reason, I cannot view