Icon Text Backgound Colors.

Is there a way to make the backgroud of the text on desktop icons transparent or if not what is the simplest way to make the changes to a different color.

An example of what I'm wanting to do I did it photoshop here...

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/4667/example3oc.jpg

I'd love to know if there's some way to do this, but as far as I know, the answer is "no".

However, the simplest way to make changes to the colour is to right-click->properties on the desktop, click the desktop tab, and play around with the colour box.

On Windows XP, you can enable it by going into System Properties, going to the Advanced tab, clicking the Settings button under Performance, and putting a check in the box next to "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". That will render the text background transparent. For Windows 2000, install this "Transparent" utility:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/transparent

I find that the transparency only works with a BMP wallpaper. Probably because that doesn't use Active Desktop.

>>4
Thanks a lot that worked but another problem appeared...how can I make the text stay black.  It all changes to white which doesn't work with the background.

>>6
You can't directly control the icon text colour - Windows (pre-XP) tries to choose a colour that contrasts with your set background colour (though not your wallpaper, which could be anything). Set your background colour in the Desktop Properties dialogue (on the Desktop tab) to something light, and the text should be rendered in a dark colour. XP handles things slightly differently, though (I think this only applies when you're using the XP scheme - IIRC it behaves like previous versions of Windows when using the classic shell look). When a background picture is used and text shadowing is switched on, it normally renders the text white with a black shadow. You can get around this with a third-party utility, such as D-Color:

http//www.softpedia.c/...

>>7
Ahh thank you very much that program did exactly what I was wanting to do.

>>4

Argh, I have that button clicked but it -still- won't work!

What's going on? X_X

You rule, >>4! Thanks!

(BTW, I'm not >>9).