Taskbar Transparency

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I was curious why can some blinds taskbar go completely transparent while others leave a blurred white part like in the images?

I normally like to use completely transparent taskbars but have found a lot cannot go completely transparent.

Blinds used here are:

Softer by 2of3

Saboteur by Vampothika

 

 

Taskbar

 

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Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.1
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4.7

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.1 (build 255 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1300/X1550 Series  

Wblind.dll         2010/04/08 14:07:20
Wbsrv.dll         2010/04/01 11:43:30
SevenConfig.exe         2010/02/15 15:09:57
Wbload.exe         2010/02/02 15:33:18
Wbhelp.dll         2008/04/28 09:35:07
Tray.dll              2009/10/21 07:13:19
Wbload.dll              2010/04/01 11:43:28
Screen.exe         2009/12/03 14:43:26

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Do you have Vista Home Premium or above?

Do you have Aero enabled?

If the answer to either of the above is no, that would be the problem.

Also, go into task manager and be sure dwm.exe is running.

 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have Vista Home Premium, and Aero is running.

dwm.exe is running.

The images were taken within a couple of minutes of each other.  The only thing I did was apply the blind.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The difference between the 2 skins is the setting in skinstudio for that section. On softer I have it set to semi transparency, where Vamp has her skin set to blur.

 

If you have skinstudio it's easy to fix

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Stupid post....please laugh at me and disregard...:blush:

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Also make sure that you haven't checked the force blur effect box in your windowblinds transparency settings

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well...it seems I'm too late...lol. I was posting along with you, Tim.  :D

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ahh  thank you both, You are both very helpful as usual.  :)

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

 I just want to say thank you to all of you!   It solved a similar problem for me too.  XD   I will get the hang of it all one of these days.  :grin: