Taskbar Transparent - Vista

Sorry for being dumb, but I'm a novice at Vista (dual-boot it now and
> then). How do you make the taskbar in Vista transparent? I've been
> wanting to do this for ages and would love to know how. Simple
> instructions, please. I'm absolutely all thumbs :-)
>
> TIA.
> Russel

"Nial" <rusty.nial@nowhere.at.all> wrote in message
news:eYPokDg1IHA.4220@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Sorry for being dumb, but I'm a novice at Vista (dual-boot it now and
> > then). How do you make the taskbar in Vista transparent? I've been
> > wanting to do this for ages and would love to know how. Simple
> > instructions, please. I'm absolutely all thumbs :-)
> >
> > TIA.
> > Russel


Try: Right click on empty area of your desktop. Select Personalize. Then
select Windows Color and Appearance. Check the box to enable transparency.

Don

http://zb24.wordpress.com/2007/09/30...-transparency/

iTunes and other programs taskbar utilities shut off the transparency.
FireFox, Opera, Winamp and others when enabled do the same.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop...-TaskBar.shtml

http://www.codegazer.com/vistaglazz/downloads/
Get beta 1.1

A trick :
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/inde...showtopic=6090


"Nial" <rusty.nial@nowhere.at.all> wrote in message news:eYPokDg1IHA.4220@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Sorry for being dumb, but I'm a novice at Vista (dual-boot it now and
> > then). How do you make the taskbar in Vista transparent? I've been
> > wanting to do this for ages and would love to know how. Simple
> > instructions, please. I'm absolutely all thumbs :-)
> >
> > TIA.
> > Russel

Right click your desktop, select Personalize. Go to Windows Color and
Appearance and check the Enable Transparency box. Also, to get your
taskbar transparent, you can't have any applications having the main
focus.


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