The option to make desktop icons transparent is a Windows feature which means that every user can set it in Windows directly without having to install third party software. It was there, somewhere that was sure but it is sometimes hard to remember if the setting was a standard Windows feature or available through so called Windows tweaking tools. I was almost certain that this was a setting in Windows itself. I decided to search for a solution for the issue to find out how to make desktop icons on the system transparent so that they would show up fine regardless of the background image. They showed up in black which did not work properly with the selected white background image that was displayed on the system. see Image-1 Point 1 and 2) the personalize Window. By right-clicking on an empty (free) space on the Windows 'Desktop' a selection context menu appears, here simply open via 'Personalize' (. Yesterday's switch to the Royale theme for Windows XP had the negative side effect that the text of icons on the computer's desktop were not transparent anymore. 1.) Show (activate) Windows 8 desktop icons via the desktop menu Please press the Windows-8 key combination Win-Logo+D to see the Windows-8 desktop. Switching themes in Windows can have a few side effects that only become apparent after working with the system for some time.
