Gorgeous, eh? And note how elements of the desktop photo “bleed” through the taskbar too. For example, I’ll change to pink, enable transparency and slide the “intensity” slider towards the left:
They’re both super important to attaining just the effect you want. What’s more important to notice here, however, are the controls under the color swatches: “Enable transparency” and “Color intensity”. In any case, shortly you’ll see a bunch of very attractive colors: Hmm… doesn’t look too blue on the screen. You can see that my grey is actually known as “Sky”. What we want is at the bottom of that window. Right-click on the background photo and a menu pops up:Īs I’ve highlighted, click on “Personalize” and you’ll see a lot of different choices, including a choice of background images. Not horrible, but still a rather dull and pedestrian grey, completely opaque. There are a lot of different ways to get to the Windows “theme” and color configuration area, but I’ll take my usual shortcut, right-clicking on the desktop itself.īefore we start, however, here’s a little peek at my taskbar in its usual color scheme: Yes, you could hire an interior decorator to redo your computer desktop, though we don’t necessarily recommend it. On a Mac you’re stuck with grey and brushed metal (depending on the app) but in Win7 you can tweak it to your hearts content, even picking very specific colors for your windows and task bar that match your room or a favorite desktop image. But, with a little Registry magic, you can enable a setting that gives the taskbar an even higher level of transparency. In fact, don’t tell all those Mac fanboys but Windows 7 is far more configurable than the Mac operating system. The taskbar in Windows 10 is highly configurable, and Windows 10 already includes an option in its personalization settings to make the taskbar transparent. As we mentioned earlier, you still have access to the functional Aero features.Indeed it is. If you don’t mind giving up some of the fancy look of the Aero Glass feature, you can gain a little more performance out of your system. The borders on windows are no longer transparent. Click the Window Color and Appearance link.Ĭlick OK to close the Window Color and Appearance screen. The Personalization screen on the Control Panel displays. To disable the Aero Glass transparency in Windows Vista, right-click on an empty area of the desktop and select Personalize from the popup menu. Here’s an example of a Windows Explorer window in Windows Vista with the Aero Glass transparency enabled. Now the borders on windows are not transparent. To close the Control Panel, click the X button in the upper, right corner of the window. On the Window Color and Appearance screen, select the Enable transparency check box so there is NO check mark in the box.Ĭlick Save changes to save the setting and close the Window Color and Appearance screen. Click the Window Color link below the themes.
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