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Windows 2000 - The Windows Tweaks TransDesk 2000 package

November 30, 2013
Updated: April 14, 2022
Quick overview:

Do you have a nice background image and do you find that the icons only disturb the overall impression? With a few small, harmless tweaks to the system, your Windows could soon look like this:

To do this, you need to go through the following instructions step by step:

1. Click here to download the Windows Tweaks TransDesk 2000 package. After you have unpacked it using the ZIP function integrated in Windows, 3 files are available in the newly created folder.

2. Mark the file Transicon.icl and press CTRL+C. Now double-click under Workstation on the drive where your Windows 2000 is installed. Now open the Windows folder and press CTRL+V to copy the file into it. Once the file is in the Windows folder, you can switch to the TransDesk 2000 folder.

3. Double-click here on the file Transparent desktop and confirm successively with Yes and then with Ok.

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This file causes the new transicon icon to be used for the My Computer, My Documents, Recycle Bin and Network Neighborhood icons. It also removes the arrows from the shortcuts. The changes are already visible after a restart. To undo these changes, simply click on the file Normal Desktop and everything will be as it was before.

Also make the remaining symbols transparent

Now you just need to make the other desktop shortcuts of programs transparent. And this is how:

1. Click with the right mouse button on a shortcut of your desktop, e.g. and select properties.

In the window that appears, click on Other icon and select Browse. Now navigate to the Windows folder in which the Transicon.icl is located and double-click on it

2. Now repeat this step with all desktop shortcuts.

The background color of the symbol fonts must be transparent

To make sure that the blocks behind the symbol fonts finally disappear, all you have to do is perform the following tip: Transparent icons

After you have applied everything as described, you should be standing in front of your long-awaited transparent desktop, which allows the true splendor of your wallpaper to come into its own.

NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.

Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in the 90s. His helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (at the time Sandro looked like this). He then went on to write elsewhere, for example for PC-Praxis, Computer Bild and PCWorld in the USA. Microsoft also poached him from us. Now Sandro is back, finally sharing his tweaks here again. For a stress-free digital everyday life. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

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