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Michael wrote: Right. XP's text label backgrounds are transparent, so long as active desktop is not enabled; but when it is, the text label backgrounds become non-transparent.

So how do I make it transparent despite the active desktop? Or, is there no way..

actually, this doesnt really have anything to do with the active desktop part at all. Yes it does. When I don't have the active desktop enabled, there is no box around the text of my icons. There is a shadow to the text, but no color-box. how do you make an active desktop? is it like a gif or somet...

I made myself an active desktop to change my desktop image every so often, the only thing is, the active desktop only works if there's an icon on the desktop. I put an icon on the desktop, and it isnt transparent...the icon text has a background, which totally screws up my image. Is there anyway aro...

I was going to use ObjectDock, I heard it was good, but unfortunately, the download is like 8 megs, and I'm on dial-up.

A friend pointed me in the direction of a really good Mac dock clone. If anyone is interested it's named Y'z dock and is available here: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.ph ... 1037167525

I am a Windows user, but on occasion I use Macs. I have grown quite accustomed to the dock, and was wondering if there was a Windows program that does its job. I have the quick launch bar off my start bar, and on auto-hide, but it's not the same. MS Office used to have a shortcut bar, that was only ...

Errr...sorry for the lack of details, but a friend of mine just lets me use some of his server, I'm not too sure of what it is.

I figured I'd post in this topic since it's semi-related to my problem. I have a folder on my server where I put pictures I like. How do I allow access to this folder directly, rather than making an index page which I would have to update every time I added a picture?

Jon, might I ask how Sunkist is your fuel? There's no caffeine! How can you have fuel that has no caffeine. Thats like getting flame-retardant lighter fuel

When I signed up, there were at least 20 people that posted all the time. It has now dwindled to maybe five people?? Did everyone just all of a sudden, get a life? What fun is that?

I have XP pro, but I figured it out, thanks anyway.

Oh, alright. Uh.. how do I turn IIS on?

I have dial-up, and I can't always upload my PHP scripts to my website and test them out. Is there a way, short of installing a web server, to test my PHP scripts locally?

Have you tried reinstalling?

Time to break out the dictionary. Or.. you could download a "password cracking" program. They just try to connect on the screen name with a bunch of different passwords. Of course, 99.9% of them don't compensate for the Rate Limiting, which screws up the whole process.