problems with task bar transparency

[Guest]

I have a problem with the task bar. When I installed windows vista, the fist
time the task bar was transparent, but after the first reboot this
fonctionality had disappeared. And it's impossible restart this
fontionality.... thanks for the help

 

[Richard Urban]

If you are running a window as full screen the taskbar is no longer
transparent. Normal and expected.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

i am speaking about the "task bar" ( i think this is his name) the bar with
the "start" button, placed in bottom of system..... thanks for your quickly
response

 

[MICHAEL]

i am speaking about the "task bar" ( i think this is his name) the bar with
the "start" button, placed in bottom of system..... thanks for your quickly
response

right click Desktop>Personalize>Windows Color and Appearance


-Michael

 

[Richard Urban]

So am I.

If you have a transparent task bar, and run a windowed program as full
screen, the taskbar becomes non-transparent.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem.

I had the task bar show as transparent until today. It is now solid if I
have a window full screen as well as if all of my windows are minimized to
the task bar, or partial screen size.

The only change I have made recently is the installation of dream scene, but
the change did not happen for a number of reboots after the installation. I
would also note that I no longer have the ability to select "Show window
previews (thumbnails)" in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box
(which I could a couple of days ago).

I'm not sure if any one else has figured out how to reactivate this feature,
but I would appreciate any help that could be given.

 

[Guest]

Wow, thats a fast double post. I decided to start turning off all of my
processes to see if anything was tricking aero into thinking it shouldn't be
glass. None of the non-essentials worked, so I started clicking things in
the taskbar options. Turning off the iTunes toolbar option re-enabled the
glass affect. I don't think that I had this error before, but looking back I
did have an auto update from apple, so maybe the new version has a conflict.
Sorry for posting before exhausting my options.

 

[Guest]

I think we can forgive you your transgressions, esp as your followup was so
worthwhile.

 

[MaXimus!]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, BRAD!
Finally I understand why my task bar has been transparent for only one
day!


Brad White ha scritto:

 

[Guest]

In my case Google Desktop was the culprit.

Thanks for the heads up Brad!

 

[Guest]

also, the encarta search bar makes the taskbar non-transparent.

 

[mmcd79]

Has anyone seen an odd issue with the Vista taskbar with the "address"
toolbar open? I leave the address toolbar visible at all times, and I
have transparency set with Aero. Everything is normally fine.

Sometimes, however, as a result of RDPing in and out of my Vista
machine, that address toolbar's font goes haywire. Whereas it is
normally 'black', it changes to a really light color that cannot be
seen hardly at all. I generally have to turn off Aero and re-enable
it to get it back to normal.

Disabling Transparency does nothing.

On a side note, if I maximize a window, all transparency/glass effects
disappear (as expected), and the font on the address toolbar returns
to normal, until I unmaximize.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

You might want to take a look at the following article. This may be another
problem related to this issue that is discussed in that article.

The Windows desktop may stop updating correctly after a Windows Vista-based
computer has been running for an extended period of time:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932406