This is how you can get transparent Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10. Click on the Advanced button in the Permissions window. The taskbar of Windows 10 can also be made transparent. How to enable Aero Glass Transparency in Windows 10 (Frosted Glass and Transparent) 1. First bring up the Run command by pressing Win+R key combination. Enter Regedit.exe in the run window, and hit ok. Now navigate to the following tab in the Windows Registry. HKEYCURRENTUSER SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Themes Personalize. May 14, 2018 How to change Transparency settings in Windows 10. RECOMMENDED: Click here to repair Windows problems & optimize system performance. Windows 10 v1803, has brought to the table several important changes that are designed to fix many problems and to transform the operating system into something impressive. Jun 26, 2016 To disable or enable taskbar, Start Menu, and Action Center transparency in Windows 10, head to Start Settings Personalization Colors. Scroll down until you see the option labeled Make Start, taskbar, and action center transparent.
If you’re like most people, you’ve thought to yourself every day: “Why can’t I set windows to be transparent in Windows, so I can look through them…like actual windows?”
What? You’ve never thought of that? Weird. Well, anyways, Peek Through is a program that does one thing: allow you to quickly make any window in Windows transparent. If it’s not apparent why being transparent is useful for you, use your imagination to find a situation where the key is peeking through.
Unnecessary, impromptu rhyming out-of-the-way, there are many reasons you might want to make a window in Windows transparent. Maybe you want your media player to feel less in the way, or want to take notes while reading without completely blocking the source material. Maybe you love your wallpaper so much that you want to stare at it as you browse the web, or maybe you just think transparency is occasionally useful for multi-tasking.
Whatever your reason, Peek Through is a simple Windows app that sits in your system tray and quickly makes any window transparent with the use of a custom keyboard shortcut. Here’s how it works.
Using Peek ThroughWindows 10 Transparent Window Title
Peek Through is advertised to work with Windows XP, Vista, and 7; I’ve discovered it also works well in Windows 8’s desktop mode. Transparent windows look great.
The software itself lives in your system tray once you launch it, waiting for you to use a keyboard shortcut.
Only when you use that keyboard shortcut, which you can set to be whatever you want, does a given window become transparent. You’ll be able to see whatever is behind a given window – your desktop, other software and even desktop icons.
Use the same keyboard shortcut again and that program will go back to normal. The program stays out of your way unless you need it, which is nice.
You can configure how transparent windows will become, and whether or not transparent windows can be “clicked through” (that is, whether any window that is transparent is ignored by the mouse or not).
Set the program to start when Windows does, assuming you plan on using it regularly. There’s not a lot of configuration outside of that: Peek Through is simple, and any further complication probably wouldn’t add a lot of benefit.
Download Peek Through
Ready to give this program a spin? Download Peek Through now from LukePayneSoftware.com. As always with free software built by volunteers, consider donating if you like what you’re getting: it will help more software like this exist.
Make Window Transparent Windows 10Conclusion
I used to use a feature like this in Ubuntu constantly, thanks to Compiz. I’d write in a transparent window while still being able to reference my source material in the window below. Being able to do the same thing in Windows is great.
You might argue that larger monitors eliminate the need for this – there’s plenty of screen real estate now – but it’s still nice to have the option: you never know when it might come in handy. And even if it doesn’t, sometimes transparent windows simply look nice.
But I want to know what you think. What are you using Peek Through for? Let me know in the comments below, along with any other desktop tweaking programs you want to share.
Oh, and here are a few related tips:
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Microsoft has been improving the taskbar with every version of Windows as it’s one of the busiest areas of Windows operating system. In Windows 10, Microsoft has added a couple of new features to taskbar but the taskbar is not transparent with default settings.
Talking about new features on taskbar, firstly, there is a large search box on the taskbar in Windows 10. The search box, which appears right to the Start button, is home to the newly introduced digital personal assistant Cortana.
Not only does the search box on the taskbar allows you launch files and programs on your PC, but also allows you search the web using Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Those who prefer Google search can follow our workaround to enable Google search in Windows 10 taskbar search box.
Secondly, the system tray area of taskbar includes an icon to access the new action center. The all new date and time flyout is also another nice addition to the taskbar, and more importantly, it goes very well with the new design language of Windows 10.
Transparent taskbar in Windows 10
While Windows 10 supports transparency in Start menu, taskbar and action center, it’s turned off by default. We have already shown how to make Start menu transparent in Windows 10 with or without the help of third-party tools. In this guide, we are going to discuss how to make taskbar transparent in Windows 10 without using third-party tools.
NOTE: As you can see in the above picture, turning on transparency for taskbar doesn’t make the taskbar fully transparent unlike in previous Windows versions. You can only enable or disable transparency but can’t change the transparency level in Windows 10. For that, you need to go for third-party utilities.
Windows 10 Transparent Theme
IMP: To make the taskbar fully (100%) transparent, please refer to our how to make the Windows 10 taskbar fully transparent guide.
Make Window Transparent Windows 10Make Windows 10’s taskbar transparent
Step 1: The first step is to open Settings app as Start menu and taskbar settings are available only in the Settings app.
To open Settings app, open Start menu, click Settings icon (see below picture). Alternatively, you can quickly open the Settings app using Windows + I keyboard shortcut.
Windows 10 Transparent Taskbar
Step 2: Once Settings app is launched, click Personalization.
Step 3: In the left-side, click Colors option. On the right-side, turn on the option labelled Make Start, taskbar, and action center transparent.
Transparent Window Windows 10 Windows
Note: As you probably have observed, enabling transparency for taskbar also makes Start menu and action center transparent. For now, there is no software that can enable transparency only for taskbar in Windows 10. We will let us know with a new guide as well as update this guide if and when there is a software to do so.
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