Can I highlight some (but not all) desktop icons?

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Is it possible to highlight some (but not all) icons on the DESKTOP?

For example, the highlighting might be a special background for
particular icons only.

Or maybe a different font can be used for the text under particular
icons only.

How can this sort of highlighting be done?
 
David said:
Is it possible to highlight some (but not all) icons on the DESKTOP?

For example, the highlighting might be a special background for
particular icons only.

Or maybe a different font can be used for the text under particular
icons only.

How can this sort of highlighting be done?
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You'd probably have to write a program that redrew these window elements
on the desktop, and have it running it continually.

In practice this sort of thing is a nightmare to code, so the simple
answer is - I believe - "no".
 
Wed said:
Is it possible to highlight some (but not all) icons on the DESKTOP?
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Left-click the first one, and ctrl-left-click the others.

OR click outside one and drag the mouse to make a rectangular area
enclosing the desired ones.

OR left-click the first one in a series and shift-left-click the last
one in the series.


Your desktop works very much like Explorer for selecting items.
 
Stan said:
Left-click the first one, and ctrl-left-click the others.

OR click outside one and drag the mouse to make a rectangular area
enclosing the desired ones.

OR left-click the first one in a series and shift-left-click the last
one in the series.


Your desktop works very much like Explorer for selecting items.
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I think the OP means something different by "Highlight"
 
Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:29:45 +0100 from Mike Williams <mikew@m-v-p-
s.org.null>, in e-mail and in Usenet:
I think the OP means something different by "Highlight"
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Please, everyone -- when e-mailing a copy of your posted article,(*)
_identify_ it as a copy. The recipient of an e-mail naturally assumes
it's a one-to-one message and is not happy, after spending time
writing a one-to-one reply, to find out it was just a broadcast.

(*) which is hardly ever necessary, BTW.
 
Stan said:
Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:29:45 +0100 from Mike Williams <mikew@m-v-p-
s.org.null>, in e-mail and in Usenet:

Please, everyone -- when e-mailing a copy of your posted article,(*)
_identify_ it as a copy. The recipient of an e-mail naturally assumes
it's a one-to-one message and is not happy, after spending time
writing a one-to-one reply, to find out it was just a broadcast.

(*) which is hardly ever necessary, BTW.
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It depends how your newsreader handles it. But the safest thing is NOT
to put an unmunged email address into your NG posts, since spammers
harvest them for targets.
 
Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:28:04 GMT from David Peters


Left-click the first one, and ctrl-left-click the others.

OR click outside one and drag the mouse to make a rectangular
area enclosing the desired ones.

OR left-click the first one in a series and shift-left-click the
last one in the series.


Your desktop works very much like Explorer for selecting items.
Click to expand...

No not that sort of highlighting!

The highlighting might be a special background for particular
icons only.

Or maybe a different font can be used for the text under
particular icons only.
 
David said:
No not that sort of highlighting!

The highlighting might be a special background for particular
icons only.

Or maybe a different font can be used for the text under
particular icons only.
Click to expand...

How about putting all of the particular icons into a new Folder
called 'My Special Highlighted Icons' (or whatever makes sense
as a group title)?
 
Bingo!

DSH

How about putting all of the particular icons into a new Folder
called 'My Special Highlighted Icons' (or whatever makes sense
as a group title)?
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I guess one option would be to create your own icon, or grab one from and
icon collection and use it on all of the ones you want to "highlight." That
does nothing to the text, but at least they all stand out from your
"regular" icons.

Or, if you CAN make your own icons, give the ones you one to highlight a
distinctive characteristic, like a certain-colored stripe down the side of
the icon. That way you could have different icons, but you could have a
common element to the ones you wanted to draw attention to.
 
Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:22:51 +0100 from Mike Williams <mikew@m-v-p-
s.org.null>:
It depends how your newsreader handles it. But the safest thing is NOT
to put an unmunged email address into your NG posts, since spammers
harvest them for targets.
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And what does that have to do with the point at issue? Don't send e-
mail copies of posted articles, but if you do then identify them as
such.

And in particular, please don't send e-mail with a forged From
address. Not only did I waste time answering your e-mails, which
looked like one-on-one mail, but then I got back bounce messaged
because you e-mailed me TWICE with a forged From address.

While there might be some room for different opinions on forging your
address for Usenet postings, doing it in e-mail is a spammer's trick
and just not on.
 
How about this approach?

- Fire up your preferred drawing program.
- Make the drawing canvas the size of your desktop.
- Draw a special rectangle (or some arbitrary other blob) at the
position you want to highlight.
- Save as bitmap
- Make this "image" your desktop background.

Michael
 
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