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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 08, 2005, 12:00:13 pm

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 08, 2005, 12:00:13 pm

(http://www.jonnebob.co.uk/Bev/DesktopBork.jpg)

Any ideas on how to fix it?

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: pyro-manic on February 08, 2005, 12:26:01 pm

Ummm....

What am I looking at here? And what's the problem?

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Kie99 on February 08, 2005, 12:24:06 pm

What's the difference :wtf:

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 08, 2005, 12:26:05 pm

Look at the text labels on the icons...

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Fury on February 08, 2005, 12:30:06 pm

Is that W98 or ME? If yes, then you need to enable active desktop or get an utility from a web that enables the feature. Google for it.

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: kasperl on February 08, 2005, 12:35:44 pm

Right click on the desktop, go to properties. Go to do 'desktop' , and then 'adapt desktop' or something like that.
Fiddle around with the colour stuff once you get there. You're looking at something like "text background" and a transparent option.
Mind you, I'm typing this while looking at a Dutch version of XP, so the terms and exact spots can be somewhat off.

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 08, 2005, 12:36:20 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Mr. Fury
Is that W98 or ME? If yes, then you need to enable active desktop or get an utility from a web that enables the feature. Google for it.

It's XP.

If it was either 98 or ME I'd know about such a utility, otherwise I wouldn't've had the transparent labels beforehand, comprendi?

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 08, 2005, 12:49:53 pm

There's another symptom.
The themes tab has disappeared from the Display Properties window, which probably means I've somehow disabled themes.
Since I've only recently moved onto XP I wouldn't know how to re-enable them. Suggestions?

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Fury on February 08, 2005, 02:08:08 pm

Go to control panel > administrative tools > services > double click on themes > make sure its set to automatic and is running > close services.

Then go to control panel > system > advanced > performance settings > enable drop shadows for icon labels on desktop > ok > ok.

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 08, 2005, 02:11:29 pm

Done both of them, to no effect.

But it's a moot point now, as I fixed the problems with a combination of system restore and manually editing the registry.

Title: Minor Desktop Annoyance
Post by: karajorma on February 08, 2005, 02:13:35 pm

EDIT : Mr Fury beat me to it :)