how to make desktop icon background tranparent and ...?

[bilal_hameed]

ok guys you already know the question :: I want to know how to make the desktop icon background transparent thru editing registry and my 2nd question is that when I edit registry to display window's version on the desktop :: it does not show no matter what I do :: it is not just coming up :: I am using Win98 SE :: help is appreciated :: thanx in advance

[atgheb]

Well Bilal, I can answer part of your question. You cannot make the icon back ground transparent by editing the registry. What you need is a program that can let you edit icons or edit specific parts of your desktop. However, earlier on, just a few weeks ago a similar discussion took place and you can probably find it on this forum or in one of the other forums. In that discussion a program was suggested to make the icons transparent, it was called "transparent" it is a very small free program, I use it and it works great take up no resources...
www.pobox.com/~jayguerette/transparent

Ali

[bilal_hameed]

thank you :: yes i know it is not possible so I still thought may be I am missing something and may be still it is possible so I asked :: anyway the s/w you suggested is really good as well :: now I am left with a question on how come windows do not display it's version on the desktop? even after do the exact edit in the regedit ::

[atgheb]

Well Bilal, the reason that the version is not showing on your desktop is that this website is wrong... it asks you to create a DWORD and set it's value to 1. WRONG webmaster please correct this. You have to create a String Value NOT a DWORD value and set it to 1.

So.. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop
New String value: PaintDesktopVersion
value: 1

it works great, I tried it...

Ali

[bilal_hameed]

thank you ali :: I will try that :: appreciate your help ::