>>Right click on Desktop, go to Properties/Appearance tab, look at the button called Effects and see what Effects you have.
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>All boxes are checked except fot the 'Use large icons'
>The first drop-down is set to 'fade effect'
>the second to 'clear type'
>
>Thanks

See if you change this first one and remove Themes = .F. from your code. Would you get the same effect?