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20-Aug-2001, 07:19 PM #1
Thumbs up Desktop icon boxes that surround the text.
I was browsing in some old posts and I found a question regarding removing the shaded text boxes around the desktop icons. However, I cannot find the post again.

I realize that you can change the color but what if you have a pic as the desktop background? Well,,, check this out....

http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stori...15,80942,.html

"Simply Transparent is a desktop enhancement application which sits in the system tray. It rids the desktop of the ugly opaque boxes that surround the text labels of your icons, and it can even rid your desktop of the icons altogether."

I have it and it works good.

(Mod ... if you can find the post please let me know or post this reply in it. Thx)
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25-Aug-2001, 12:08 AM #2
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check out Transparent Desktop-it'll clear the backgrounds and let you select font color in those boxes and more...all under 40k http://home.flash.net/~qsystems/
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26-Aug-2001, 07:40 PM #3
I think I might get that.
It makes for a better look.
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26-Aug-2001, 09:10 PM #4
Thanx for the link Ronneh !
It works great and it'e Freeware.
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26-Aug-2001, 09:56 PM #5
While you're at it, you might like to take a look at Invisible. I have been using the freeware version now for approx 3 months and it has everything I was looking for and then some.
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