A lot of people using the "seven" as their operating system fell in love with it for interesting visual effects. The transparent taskbar on Windows 7 is especially admired. But let's see how to install it in the system, if for some reason it has changed its appearance or is simply disabled. It may well be that the classic or contrasting look of the graphical interface of the system is simply used, and, as you know, they do not support transparency.
How to make a transparent taskbar of Windows 7 using the Aero interface?
We begin our consideration of this issue with the standard element of the “seven”, which, in general, is responsible for creating such an effect in the system. This is the so-called Aero interface.
Before you begin to solve the problem of how to make a transparent taskbar in Windows7, you need to make sure that it is present in the system, and then proceed to the basic settings.
So. First, use the right click at any point in the desktop space and select the personalization item from the context menu that appears. A window opens showing a list of available Aero themes.
Choose your favorite, and then go to the "Window color settings" section. This section has a special parameter for activating the transparency effect, which you must enable.
In addition, there is a slider below, which allows you to easily adjust the indicator of the level of color intensity. We set the necessary mode and save the changes made. As you can see, everything is simple.
Yes, if the desired effect is not achieved, you should check whether the installed theme really refers to the Aero interface. To do this, you need to find the presentation and performance settings through the Start menu (you can use the usual search), and then in the performance options on the visual effects tab, check the box next to the transparency effect enable line.
How to make a transparent taskbar of Windows 7 using the "Control Panel"?
You can go, so to speak, in a roundabout way. Similar changes and settings can be made in the Control Panel.
Here we need the “System and Security” section, in which you must first click on the “System” link, then use the additional parameters section and, ultimately, get to the system properties. As in the case with the presentation parameters, in the settings window you will need to enable the transparency effect. It seems that such a solution to the problem of how to make a transparent taskbar of Windows 7 is somewhat inconvenient, since it takes more time. And if the user of the computer terminal is working under his account, and even access to the "Control Panel" has been disabled by the administrator, this method is generally worthless.
Transbar Program
However, the question of how to make a transparent taskbar of Windows 7 is not limited to using standard tools of the OS itself. Today you can find a lot of software products for changing the visualization parameters of the graphical system interface. Consider the category of these programs using a small application called TransBar as an example. This utility is perfect for versions of the "seven" Home and Starter.
In the program itself, we are interested in three things. First you need to check the box next to the transparency effect accessibility field (Enable), then enable the Auto apply transparency tracking option and check the box next to the utility launch field at system startup (Run at Windows startup). The names of the setting items may differ depending on the version of the program.
Of course, the program will constantly "hang" in the computer's memory, however, it will not have a special impact on system performance.
AlphaXP app
Now let's see how to make a transparent taskbar in Windows XP. As already clear, the presented program is designed specifically for this version.
Here, again, it will be necessary to make the transparency effect available by placing a “bird” opposite the Taskbar Transparency line (transparency of the taskbar), after which the effect itself can be adjusted.
In addition, you will need to click on the application icon in the system tray and select in the options the start with the launch of Windows (Start with Windows) and minimized view (Start Minimized). As you can see, even the usual "ekspisk" can be reduced to the form of the "seven". Like the first case, the program will be in memory, but it uses a very low percentage of system resources to work in the background.
Conclusion
Here, in fact, we examined the basic methods for solving the problem of how to make a transparent panel of Windows 7 or XP. Of course, this is not the whole list of means by which such settings can be made.
For example, many sites on the Internet offer special registration files for download, the launch of which can change the corresponding keys and settings in the system registry, but, it seems, not every user will like this method, and there is a guarantee that everything will work without fail, also no one will. At the very least, at first you need to at least check the file for viruses or malicious codes and create a system restore control point so that, in which case, you can roll back to a healthy state.