Drop shadows for icon labels on desktop

On one of my computers I can't make the drop shadows appear for the icons on
the desktop. Regardless of how I choose that checkbox
(Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Visual Effects/"Use drop
shadows for icon labels on the Desktop" ) the icon labels always just show
with a regular font and a box of the desktop color (which doesn't look nice
against the desktop picture).

A minor complaint, but it would be nice if I could fix it. A registry tweak
somewhere, perhaps?

--
Gregg C.

Four things are required for transparent icon backgrounds:

1.Control Panel-System-Advanced-Performance Settings.
Check "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" on the Visual
Effects tab.

2.Right-click on Desktop - "Arrange Icons by" and ensure Lock Web
items is cleared.

3.Transparency will not work if you have web content on your desktop,
Control Panel - Display Properties - Desktop tab - Customize Desktop -
Web tab. Clear all check boxes.

4. Ensure the Wallpaper is an image file not HTML.

See:
Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency
or the drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;305117

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.htm



On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:07:38 -0400, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "Gregg Cattanach"
<rl3166pls@excite.com> wrote:

>On one of my computers I can't make the drop shadows appear for the icons on
>the desktop. Regardless of how I choose that checkbox
>(Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Visual Effects/"Use drop
>shadows for icon labels on the Desktop" ) the icon labels always just show
>with a regular font and a box of the desktop color (which doesn't look nice
>against the desktop picture).
>
>A minor complaint, but it would be nice if I could fix it. A registry tweak
>somewhere, perhaps?

Thanks so much! It was the 'Lock Web Items' switch that was causing the
problem. Problem fixed

Gregg


Alan Edwards wrote:
> Four things are required for transparent icon backgrounds:
>
> 1.Control Panel-System-Advanced-Performance Settings.
> Check "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" on the Visual
> Effects tab.
>
> 2.Right-click on Desktop - "Arrange Icons by" and ensure Lock Web
> items is cleared.
>
> 3.Transparency will not work if you have web content on your desktop,
> Control Panel - Display Properties - Desktop tab - Customize Desktop -
> Web tab. Clear all check boxes.
>
> 4. Ensure the Wallpaper is an image file not HTML.
>
> See:
> Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency
> or the drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;305117
>
> ...Alan
>
>> On one of my computers I can't make the drop shadows appear for the
>> icons on the desktop. Regardless of how I choose that checkbox
>> (Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Visual
>> Effects/"Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop" ) the icon
>> labels always just show with a regular font and a box of the desktop
>> color (which doesn't look nice against the desktop picture).
>>
>> A minor complaint, but it would be nice if I could fix it. A
>> registry tweak somewhere, perhaps?