Hi Dori, I use a small free program that toggles the desktop on and off as you wish. It is called DiskSweeper and can be found at Free Software Utilities - No Nonsense Software It will sweep all the icons from your desktop when you click on the taskbar icon and restore them the next time you click on the icon. Enjoy, Rocky de Dragon ********************************************************************************************************** Hi all.. does anyone know how to make my desktop icons transparant? Just so the title shows and no little color box around the title?? I can't remember how I did it before!!!!! Geeeez....getting forgetful!! Thanks, Dorie -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 -- To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk