Hide Window(s) title bar?

[Guest]

Lately, I have become a bit obsessed with maximizing screen estate - I
want as much content as possible with as little visual "bling" as
possible (I maximize the window of every application I am using).

Several applications - such as Opera - allow removing the menu,
toolbars, taskbars etc. from the screen, but one thing usually remains:
the standard Window(s) title bar.

On a 1280x1024 display, that leaves quite a lot of blue (or silver)
nothing on top with just the Minimize/Restore/Close widgets in the
right corner.

Using Display Properties, I have squeezed the title bar down to 11
pixels, but I wonder if there is a way to switch it off completely - if
possible, using a keyboard shortcut so you can get it back should I
really need to move a menu.

(I know that several applications provide some kind of full-screen
mode, but a system-wide solution would be appreciated)

And if you think that saving 2% of screen space is ridiculous, you are
probably right. Call it the final stage of UI minimalism.

TIA.

 

[Andrew Bailey]

Rightclick the taskbar and select "Properties", then check the "Auto-hide
the taskbar" box.

Tada

Andy

 

[Guest]

check the "Auto-hide the taskbar" box.

Auto-hiding the taskbar does not hide the Window title bars.

 

[News Reader]

Technically it would be possible to write a program which sends proper
windows messages to all or selected windows to hide title bars. I don't know
that anybody has actually written such program. But who knows...

 

[Andrew Bailey]

My bad, I misread your question.. sorry

I'm sure if you googled you question you would find an answer... try
desktop-x by stardock

Andy

 

[David Winter]

I'm sure if you googled you question you would find an answer...

No, it did not. Otherwise I would not ask around here.

try desktop-x by stardock

I am not prepared to *add* a very bulky and complex "Windows makeover"
software when I just want to *remove* one component of the UI. I was
looking for an "onboard" solution, like a registry hack.

Well. I am using a very small font for title bars now and will leave it
at that.

Thanks anyway.