dhanesh
May 19 2007, 10:45 AM
I just installed Vista for a friend and took the opportunity to play around with it a little. I came across a rather annoying problem i cant resolve currently. The icons on the desktop (Folders or applications icons), when hovered upon shows a white highlight box. When the icon is selected the highlight stays. This white box is pretty annoying and if i dont want that to appear, what should i do. Just like the icons in XP without any border. I searched online and i found this one solution but i dont know how to reach "Display Properties" or "Customize Desktop and Web" or "Lock desktop items". So was wondering if anyone could help me out in this. QUOTE Go to System Properties and click on Advanced and Performance Settings. Make sure to check the box in the “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop”.
If this does not work, go to Display Properties and click on Customize Desktop and Web. Make sure to uncheck the box in the “Lock desktop items”. Regards Dhanesh.
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xboxrulz
May 20 2007, 04:43 AM
It's not a problem. It's how Microsoft built the system to behave like that. Just click the wallpaper again to have the white box deselected. If you seriously get annoyed by the white box, revert your theme back to Windows Classic. You'll lose the Aero and Vista look, but at least the "problem" is gone. xboxrulz
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dhanesh
May 21 2007, 05:29 PM
QUOTE(xboxrulz @ May 20 2007, 08:43 AM)  It's not a problem. It's how Microsoft built the system to behave like that. Just click the wallpaper again to have the white box deselected. If you seriously get annoyed by the white box, revert your theme back to Windows Classic.
You'll lose the Aero and Vista look, but at least the "problem" is gone.
xboxrulz And there i thought vista could be customized. Anyways, i think he learned his lesson lol. He uninstalled it and installed XP. All that money down the drain. Regards Dhanesh.
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xboxrulz
May 22 2007, 01:14 AM
QUOTE(dhanesh @ May 21 2007, 01:29 PM) And there i thought vista could be customized. Anyways, i think he learned his lesson lol. He uninstalled it and installed XP. All that money down the drain.
Regards
Dhanesh. You can customize Vista, however, there's no skins available right now, unless he go and create it himself. xboxrulz
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dhanesh
May 22 2007, 03:11 PM
I think wincustomize has some, but i havent checked them out myself. I just got a bunch of CDs from Ubuntu for 7.04. Gave him one of them, leme see if i can spread the fever  Regards Dhanesh.
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Moon Child
May 22 2007, 03:37 PM
Well it looks like this issue got resolved.  I was just noticing that on my desktop icons yesterday when I decided to change to a black wallpaper. It does get annoying, but at least there's a solution for it, which I should try. Right now. Now the only thing left is to have Windows come up with different skins for Vista or have a program where people could create some. It gets annoying seeing the same black bar (albeit well polished) all the time on the desktop. I tried WindowBlinds but it abruptly messed up my PC, which then led me to reboot the entire system.
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hazim
Jun 27 2007, 07:26 PM
hi; this is my first participation in this forum. I found this site while I was searching for a solution of my small problem; which you see in the picture. does anybody knows how i can remove this white from around the icons? thank you.
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xboxrulz
Jun 27 2007, 10:07 PM
as said above, there's currently no way to do so. It's just like the blue highlight in older themes. xboxrulz
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hazim
Jun 30 2007, 05:54 PM
sorry; there was a problem and the picture didn't upload; this is the picture now. and the white thing is different from what you think see the picture please. thank you for help.
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Downlinker
Jun 30 2007, 08:43 PM
Hawe you tried annother Windows theme? Like the Windows defalut?
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xboxrulz
Jul 1 2007, 10:06 PM
QUOTE(hazim @ Jun 30 2007, 01:54 PM) sorry; there was a problem and the picture didn't upload;
this is the picture now. and the white thing is different from what you think
see the picture please.
thank you for help. looks like a theme issue. Try using the Windows XP default theme. Furthermore, this topic is about Windows Vista. Please start a new thread. xboxrulz
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