How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

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   Ty Mature says:

   February 10, 2008 at 4:29 am

   If you are trying to make your icon text backgrounds transparent and you are trying to do it after you have installed an animated wallpaper from a web site, you are wasting your time trying to fix the problem! If your computer is showing transparent backgrounds when using the “as is” wallpaper listed in the Desktop Display Box, it will not show transparent backgrounds if you install an animated wallpaper, say from EleFun for example. The same thing will happen when you install a desktop icon management program – it will work okay with those wallpapers supplied with your computer but will not work with any moving wallpaper off the web.

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   Richard says:

   May 5, 2008 at 2:20 am

   On Windows Server 2003 checked the box Use drop shadows for icon labels……
   Perfect Solution!!

   Thanx!

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   Doug C. says:

   April 8, 2009 at 11:00 am

   I recently found a nice photo on Flickr I wanted to use as the background image on my desktop. I copied the image and then pasted it in Photoshop and resized it to fit my desktop (1680×1050). After doing this I noticed there was still a background color behind my icon text. After spending all morning browsing Google and all the solutions offered (including the one here) I finally figured out what was wrong.

   When saving the image in Photoshop I had used the “Save for Web” dialogue. Instead I saved the same image again only this time using “File>Save As” and picked “JPG” as the file type. Then I went to my desktop, right-clicked, chose Properties, Desktop tab, browsed to the saved image, and applied.

   Viola! Transparent icons.

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   Dave says:

   January 16, 2010 at 4:38 am

   Doug C.
   I tried your tip and it did not work. bummer.

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