# A very very tough win question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-very-very-tough-win-question/83177
**Category:** random
**Created:** [March 16, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-very-very-tough-win-question/83177 "2005-03-16T18:12:41Z")
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### Author: ![andr\_in](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/andr_in/32/37_2.png) [@andr\_in](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andr_in)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-very-very-tough-win-question/83177/1 "2005-03-16T18:12:41Z")

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so… the tech support was all over my dad’s laptop setting up an internet connection and it seems to me that they were doing everything else except the internet connection 😛 (I would’ve done it myself but the location was \>100km away)

I’ve got most of the touchpad and win theme settings back to normal but the one thing I can’t figure out is the backgroun color of the text of the shortucts on the desktop…  
They used to be transparent but now they’re colored and my dad wants them transparent 😛

I know I can change the color from display properties -\> appearance -\> advanced -\> item(“desktop”); … but how in the world can I make it transparent? 😛

edit: win XP