WB icon text backgrounds
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by CD M | Discussion: Stardock Support General
This may be a stupid question, but I'm stumped. The icon text boxes on my desktop always have a color to them when I load WB6.02 on my XP machine. The screen shots of the WBs I download never have color to them, and the text background is transparent, as it would appear on a standard Windows desktop. That doesn't happen when I use WB. I can change the color of the text box background by changing the color of my desktop background, but in most cases, I'd like to have a transparent, in other words, invisible text background with only the wall showing behind the text. What am I doing or not doing, and how can I fix this? Thanks.
CD M
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:44 AM
"use drop shadows...." was checked. I tried unchecking and checking the option several times, with a reboot each time, and regardless of the choice made, the background color still appears in the text boxes.
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:44 AM
"use drop shadows...." was checked. I tried unchecking and checking the option several times, with a reboot each time, and regardless of the choice made, the background color still appears in the text boxes.
vStyler
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:03 AM
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:03 AM
Make sure your not using a PNG or a GIF as a wallpaper.
Neil Banfield
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:10 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:10 AM
Also make sure you have no web content embedded in the desktop (I.e. Active Desktop enabled)
CD M
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:31 AM
Thanks for all the replies. I'm still having no success after following all recommendations. I use Webshots (wbz, I think) for my wallpaper in most cases, but even after changing over to a generic jpg, I'm still having no luck with displaying a transparent background for my icon text. I can live with what I have, I suppose, but it would be nice to have things look as they should.
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:31 AM
Thanks for all the replies. I'm still having no success after following all recommendations. I use Webshots (wbz, I think) for my wallpaper in most cases, but even after changing over to a generic jpg, I'm still having no luck with displaying a transparent background for my icon text. I can live with what I have, I suppose, but it would be nice to have things look as they should.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:27 PM