Comments on: How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/ Windows 7 2008 2003 Vista XP 2000 Ms Office Tutorials Fixes Tips Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:32:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/comment-page-1/#comment-3439 Dave Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:38:05 +0000 http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/#comment-3439 Doug C. I tried your tip and it did not work. bummer. Doug C.
I tried your tip and it did not work. bummer.

]]> By: Doug C. http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/comment-page-1/#comment-1586 Doug C. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:00:25 +0000 http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/#comment-1586 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 (1680x1050). 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. 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.

]]> By: Richard http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Richard Mon, 05 May 2008 08:20:22 +0000 http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/#comment-117 On Windows Server 2003 checked the box Use drop shadows for icon labels...... Perfect Solution!! Thanx! On Windows Server 2003 checked the box Use drop shadows for icon labels……
Perfect Solution!!

Thanx!

]]> By: Ty Mature http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Ty Mature Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:29:10 +0000 http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-make-your-desktop-icons-transparent/#comment-116 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. 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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