Display problem corrected

The current desktop with TLB 3.1, Drive Space Monitor, Network Monitor, System Monitor, Moon Monitor, UV Monitor, Wind Monitor, Weather Monitor Plus & TLB Clock.

Yuri - the problem that the TLB kept changing size has seemed to have gone away and we are not sure why! It may be something to do with Windows and most certainly not TrueLaunch Bar.

They are working well now. There are two more TLB's on this screen (hidden) and they all are displaying correctly.

This is good new
BTW how do you create transparent toolbar? I've lost somethting again???

Shh!!! It is a secret but we can PM you with the answer.

I think I know the answer... it's quite easy, uses a feature already available in TLB itself and takes just a few pixels of work in a paint program right? Nice job...

Is that "Treasure" icon your recycle bin??

If it is.... that is pretty funny.

Is that "Treasure" icon your recycle bin??

If it is.... that is pretty funny.

Yes it is. Unfortunately XP here has some display problems such as the Active Desktop will not shut off. So in order to keep any background picture it is necessary to have at least one icon on the screen. We choose this one because it adds a little flavour to the scene. By the way, we would have the background of the icon text transparent but again XP does not seem to be able to handle the situation here. On other computers we can get it to be transparent but somehow not on this one.

You mention Active Desktop won't shut off, so it's still on? If so, that would explain the background on the icon text; when AD is enabled transparency on the text is not supported...

The other possibility is that your image is in .gif, .jpg or .png format. Windows automatically activates AD to show these file types.

Convert the image to bmp and you should be able to disable AD.

HorusUK or anyone

Does anyone know how to clear the list of items in the Desktop background box? We have already moved the whole folder to another drive that had a jpg in it and renamed the folder but we cannot seem to clear the images from the list which include some jpg's. There must be a cache somewhere but where? The background picture you see above is a bmp.

The other possibility is that your image is in .gif, .jpg or .png format. Windows automatically activates AD to show these file types.

That was indeed the case in Windows 98. In Windows XP the 'Active Desktop' is not enabled just by choosing a .jpg, .png or .gif as background...

Verify this:

• Right-click the desktop, choose properties
  
• Go to tab Desktop
  
• At the bottom, click Customize desktop...
  
• Go to tab Web
  
• Make sure all items in the list are unchecked[/list:u]
  If there's one item checked, it will enable the active desktop (with non-transparent icon text)...
  
  If this doesn't work, I'll come up with a registry patch

If you have XP and want to remove all desktop icons:
right click>Arrange Icons By>Show Desktop Icons

...If this doesn't work, I'll come up with a registry patch...

This was already tried and there is only one item which is unchecked. No-go. What registry setting do you have in mind?

Find this key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components]
And check the value of 'GeneralFlags' in this key: if I have AD disabled, it has value '4', with AD enabled it's '0'.

This is just to make sure that Active Desktop is actually turned on... Because there might be something else causing the opaque icon text background...

If AD is turned on, try this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSetActiveDesktop"=dword:40

This policy prevents active desktop from being used by the current user, it probably needs a reboot... Of course this local policy may not apply if you are on a domain...

I'm glad this thread is in "General Discussion"

Find this key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components]
And check the value of 'GeneralFlags' in this key: if I have AD disabled, it has value '4', with AD enabled it's '0'.

We have this -
REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1)

Regarding the second setting do you mean 40 in hexadecimal or decimal? We are creating that DWORD key and value as it was not there. Also found in the second registry section under Explorer we find a key - "NoActiveDesktop" set at 0x00000001 (1).

Right, now I'm confused hock:

The value '40' in previous posts is hexadecimal.

Your GeneralFlags is at 001 (binary) and my GeneralFlags with AD turned off is at 100 (binary). I know for sure that the second bit (which is 0 for both of us) stands for 'items locked'. Since the other two bits are different I'd guess your AD is enabled... but I don't know for sure anymore...

I'm afraid I have to give up... But hey, that treasure icon is really cool