========================================================================== Most tiny desktop-icons transparent program "Trans-Parans2" ========================================================================== *** Feature Make a background of string of desktop-icons transparent. It is All. This is trash tool useless for the person who does not use wallpaper. :-P *** Environment Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows NT (4.0 later) *** Characteristic A characteristic of this program is small somehow. There is a thing letting a similar function come true elsewhere, but it is based on an idea "to had better be small as for the program executed with start up so long as is possible", and it is made. Version 2 is residentable. Though, because it is .dll only that is resident, .exe has been finished immediately (not to show you a message). But please feel relieved properly because transparence becomes effective. *** Installation Please extract TransParans.exe to any folder, and make shortcut in startup folder. Is not required, but please attache TRNSPRNS.ICO to shortcut icon. If WindowsScriptingHost(WSH) is installed (default in Windows98), you can make short cut automatically by double-clicking 'SETUP.JS'. *** Uninstallation Because Registry does not use it at all, if this program became needless, uninstallation is completed by deleting execution file and shortcut. However, TransParans2.dll cannot delete it by the state because TransParans2.dll is loaded by system when is executed once. Please delete it after restart after having deleted shortcut in startup. *** Custumize By a color / brightness of wallpaper, there is the case that string of an icon is hard to look. In that case, please change a desktop color in "design" tab of property of screen. String color becomes black when turns a desktop color into a bright color. String color becomes white when turns a desktop color into a dark color. There is the version too that can change a character color freely by specifing command line option. (TransParansC.exe) A form of command line option is "/Cbbggrr". Please substitute six columns of hex numbers for 'bbggrr'. As for '/', even '-' is possible. Mind an optional character in neither of large letter / small letter. *** Specification Resident version cannot be removed. *** Copyright and Distribution This is a free software. I who am an author hold a copyright. No warning reproduction OK. Regret uselessness. However, please do not change Archive file. *** Development History [Version 1] Sep.23.1998 Sudden making Confirm an operation with Win95OSR2 / Win98 Sep.24.1998 Confirm an operation with NTServer4.0SP3(Thanks to NegiKamo) Sep.24.1998 Shorten code more(v1.1) Sep.25.1998 Improve SetupScript Sep.27.1998 Make color change version (v1.2) Sep.27.1998 The last episode memory release of 'MagicalStage Fancy-LaLa' [Version 2] Nov.07.1998 Produce and release memory release of "Nostalgia" *** Contact me KEY (Yuu Igarashi) mailto:igarakey@alles.or.jp, igarashiyuu@geocities.co.jp http://www.alles.or.jp/~igarakey/