Transparent Windows (XP)

August 18, 2002 10:54 PM from

I was able to acomplish getting varying degrees of transparency of open windows once before but I am baffled as to how I did it. Can anyone help me find this feature in XP? Or did I happen across a utility that helped?

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Reply #1 August 18, 2002 10:59 PM from

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With WindowBlinds you can make your window semi-tranparent, And FX which you can do alot of neat Transparncy stuff. both programs are avalible here

Reply #2 August 18, 2002 11:08 PM from

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Hold on, hold on, hold on...you can make semi-transparent windows on WindowBlinds? Really? How? HOOOOOW???

Reply #3 August 18, 2002 11:18 PM from

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In display properties under the apperance tab: click WindowBlinds button. go to settings and click advanced button. Then check "make explorer background semi-transparent then apply changes

Reply #4 August 18, 2002 11:26 PM from

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In what version of Windowblinds is this?

Reply #5 August 18, 2002 11:30 PM from

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I'm running 3.4

Reply #6 August 18, 2002 11:33 PM from

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I think I have 3.3 or something. I don't really remember those numbers.

Reply #7 August 19, 2002 7:31 AM from

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Still trying... have everything checked but still no results

Reply #8 August 19, 2002 11:36 AM from

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Please keep in mind that this transparency is 'faked'. It uses your desktop wallpaper as a background, sort of

Reply #9 August 19, 2002 11:39 AM from

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Also, I believe your folder have to be set to classic mode in you Folder Options.

Reply #10 August 19, 2002 11:41 AM from

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man, that was some poor typing.

Reply #11 August 19, 2002 1:32 PM from

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Thanks to all! I did a Google search using `Transparent Windows` and found a number of helpful sites.

Reply #12 August 19, 2002 1:47 PM from

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That "faked" transparency looks pretty crappy. I hope WindowsFX does a better job at transparencies.

Reply #13 August 19, 2002 1:54 PM from

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it absolutely does

Reply #14 August 19, 2002 4:28 PM from

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WindowsFX does the trick.

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