Desktop IconName Bk Color

[llamaradaverde]

The little icons on the desktop, with the text under them, have a color and a background color.
My text color is white, with a rectangle of this ugly green right behind it.

My questions are, 1) how do I change that background color and, 2) how do I make it transparent?

I don't want to see it. I want it to be whatever the background image is.

Can I do this? How do I do this? I no it can be done because I have this program, WindowBlinds (from Object Desktop), that does it. Actually, the program lets you add themes that change everything from the wallpaper to what a window looks like (even how the min/max/close buttons appear and where they appear). One of my themes on the program sets the text background for the icons on the desktop to transparent.

I don't much care for the program and want to know if I can JUST change that through some registry key, and .ini file, or anything really.

ANY help would be greatly appreciated!

[Adrian]

<font color=blue> If you are still using windowsBlinds get rid of it quickly, it is going to mess your system up badly in the long run.

Up to date their are no registry hacks that can make the icons transparent, so you have to use software, their are simple programmes that will do this for you, go to google and do a search for transparent icons, and go though them and see which one sounds promissing. As for me I don't recoomend any of them. </font color=blue>

[llamaradaverde]

Not very helpful...
Actually, I want to know specifically how a program would go about doing it.

I don't want a special program off the internet, just need to know how I can change it myself - with or without a program.

[Plastic]

..I thought that WAS helpful. It told you you needed a program. It told you Wb is bloated software, which is true, and you already knew. It told you to find such an app, and where...

If you wanna know about coding, there's other forums. These apps don't simply apply some hack, they need to be running all the time.

As for me, I will recommend a good one: http://members.nbci.com/TLGriffith/DeskColor/

[Adrian]

<font color=blue> Ok man this is all I can tell you, Icons themselves are no problem, just set pixels to the transparent color
using some nice icon editing program, basically you have to trick Windows into not
drawing the background, by setting the background color to -1.

You get the handle to the desktop window, which is a ListView
windowclass, and send it a message to set background color to -1.
(LWM_SETBKGCOLOR or something, I don't remember the exact message right
now, parameter 0xFFFFFFFF)

So in other words you need additional software to do this. </font color=blue>

[james3mg]

This is a few days after the fact, so you might not get this message but...

Are you talking about the green rectangle being behind the TEXT or the ICON? I think these guys are telling you all the right stuff on how to change the ICON bgcolor, but your message seems to be talking about the color behind the text labels of the icons.

If that's what you're trying to get rid of, I don't know how to make it transparent, but you can change the color. Go to Control Panel and Display. Click on the Apperance tab and then select desktop color from the drop-down menu. Pick a new color (usually black works best, but whatever color best matches your wallpaper), and that will change the colored rectangle behind the text.

Hope this helps...if I was way off base, sorry, just ignore this ;-)

[Plastic]

You were way off base, that was what was being talked about... but never mind, may I recommend the same program to you (?), it rules:

http://members.nbci.com/TLGriffith/DeskColor/

[llamaradaverde]

Actually, I was talking about the text background color, not the icons. I only mentioned the icons because the text is right under them. I can use a programming function to make the text transparent, but I think I'm gonna tweak the registry instead. Thanks y'all.