Desktop Icons Have no Transparency!

[kylethedarkn]

Well this is quite an old problem caused by a trojan a long time ago. three years or so. In any case it left my desktop background icons unable to have tranparency. Heres a screenshot.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa290/kylethedarkn/ssfordani.jpg

Disreguard the Skin and Sidebar because they are not the cause of this. Also ignore the emulators.

Oh and computer is a emachines(dont buy one they stink) running Windows XP Professional.

[coolraj003]

So have you not removed the trojan yet as you say the problem is 3 years old or so?

[kylethedarkn]

So have you not removed the trojan yet as you say the problem is 3 years old or so?

No its longs gone. My computer is clean and everything else works just fine. Also another bit of info. If I do a system restore to as far back as I can go the icon will be transparent until I open a window or try and change the desktop.

[caperjack]

First let me say you must have one of the good EMachine if you haven't had to format it in 3 yrs .
have you tried changing the setting for it in control panel/system/advanced /performance /settings and do a for best performance setup,check off the 5-6-7 ones from the top and the bottom 3 in the list

[kylethedarkn]

First let me say you must have one of the good EMachine if you haven't had to format it in 3 yrs . have you tried changing the setting for it in control panel/system/advanced /performance /settings and do a for best performance setup,check off the 5-6-7 ones from the top and the bottom 3 in the list

Hehe, its after I had the trojan I came to daniweb in the first place and then dedicated myself to learning how to be a malware removal expert. And while I don't consider myself the best I do think I do a lot better job then some people hired to do the stuff I do. i.e. Geeksquad. So I do keep my computer clean and In the best running condition I can. Not to mention replacing and improving parts. :)

Anyways yes I've tried all that, possibly every combination of checks and unchecks. Unfortunetly nothing seems to work. :\

[caperjack]

have you tried creating a new user acct. and see how its desktop works out

[jbennet]

comtrol panel (classic view) -> system -> advanced -> perormance buttom -> make sure every box is ticked (i think the usual culprit is "icon drop shadow")

if that doesnt work, download TweakUI and play around with the effects in that

[kylethedarkn]

Yup I tried messing with all those already. I noticed drop shadow as well but nothing changes whether its checked or not.

I'm downloading TweakUI now although I remember downloading it a while ago and nothing worked. :/

[Nick Evan]

I had something like that too. Did you try to
-right click arrange icons by.....
-unselect lock web items on desktop?
I think it had something to do with that, but I might be wrong..

[coolraj003]

Looks like that you had a good run with ur e machine but the E-Curse is catching up with ya...

[jbennet]

my dads compaq has been running NT4 for oevr 10 years. No reinstalls. Thats got to be a record.

[kylethedarkn]

Looks like that you had a good run with ur e machine but the E-Curse is catching up with ya...

The funny thing is the desktop has been like that for 3 years so nothings gotten worse it was just crappy from the beginning. Well I guess thats what you can expect from an emachine though. :D

Oh And at niek_e: It was already uncheck so I tried checking it and then unchecking it but that didn't work. I'm messing around with TweakUI right now so I guess I'll see what happens with that. :)

[kylethedarkn]

have you tried creating a new user acct. and see how its desktop works out

I just did and it works perfectly. Any ideas why?

I checked the settings and they were almost identical except for the background color, which I try changing on the main user account but it just changes the black behind the icon and text to whatever color background I change it to.

[jbennet]

wierd. Maybe the skin?

[kylethedarkn]

wierd. Maybe the skin?

Nope it was there before I ever applied any skins.

[jbennet]

wierd. Try changing changing the windows theme to "classic" then back again. I once had an odd bug where the taskbar was the classic way, and everything was the XP way, and this fixed it.

[caperjack]

I just did and it works perfectly. Any ideas why?

I checked the settings and they were almost identical except for the background color, which I try changing on the main user account but it just changes the black behind the icon and text to whatever color background I change it to.

all i can say is some spyware/trojans has registry settings for that user corrupt ,and the new user creates its own new registry settings for stuff like the desktop .

[MidiMagic]

Two questions:

1. Are all of the icons somehow selected?

2. What kind of file is the wallpaper?

[kylethedarkn]

all i can say is some spyware/trojans has registry settings for that user corrupt ,and the new user creates its own new registry settings for stuff like the desktop .

Any easy way to transfer em?

[jbennet]

MS had a tool. Um, i think its in the server 2003 tools or something.