transparency

Hello all. Before we look at next week’s bulletin release, we’d like to point out an update to our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) that should provide customers with greater transparency as to how MAPP partners use the information we share with them when we release...

I was trying to unhide some files and now I've gone and changed some permissions which has resulted in files being classed as hidden. I can see them (they're at 50% transparency) but how do i get them back to being normal?

Help me please ! First of all, sorry for my bad english. I reinstall windows (format on C) and i can-t change transparency and color for taskbar. I make this steps 1. right click on desktop 2. choose personalize 3. i use a theme can run aero (i have the hardware for this). 4. at window color...

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Hi, I'm new here and hoping that someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I currently use XP but I am interested in upgrading to 7. I have spent dozens of hours researching Win 7 online, but my big questions do not appear to have easily found answers. (1) Do all menus in...

Hey all, I came across this free app the other day. Just toying around, I wanted to change the color of my Windows 7 taskbar without turning off Aero. Windows 7 Taskbar Color Changer; Download from http://grantman.net/info/win7tbcc Enjoy, Don

My taskbar disappears after going into sleep mode (completely transparent, cannot click on any part of it to open any programs) and sometimes my laptop shuts down for no reason after sleep mode. One other annoying issue is that Windows 7 takes so long to connect to my router. I'm running a dual...

Recently I have been getting into the process of creating my own icons. There is only one problem however, every time I use a .png (since it is the only format that saves transparency [that I know of]) the transparency (created from Photoshop Elements) shows up white on the background of the...

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Is there really no way to make the explorer background transparent in Wondows 7? I saw it in several places online, including youtube and etc, but no matter how much searching I do, I cannot find a straightforward way to do this. Does anyone here know? I'm not talking about chaoscrystal which...

Hi i have a problem on random ocasions my pictures set on the desktop get edgy and gradients dont work anymora here are the pictures of the normall picture and the buged picture. Hope somone can tell me why this happens. I can post my PC hardware configuration but in short i have a windows...

Disappearing windows Q At seemingly random intervals, all my open windows disappear leaving a view of the empty desktop. I can see outlines of the windows but they are all transparent. Only a quick shake of the mouse brings them back into view. Can you explain this? Link Removed

When using a solid desktop color on XP, I could place a .PNG with a transparent (invisible) background and it would work; this allowed me to change the desktop color without having to change the color of the image's background to match it. This doesn't work for me currently; its showing...

Jack Wallen shows you how to set Windows desktop gadgets to 0% opacity which will then revert to 100% upon mouse-over. More...

Well, trying to fix annoying bug #348957509 in win7.... When you try to drag and drop a file in win7, there is a transparent icon that follows yours cursor around. This icon is pointless and makes viewing folder names a bit more difficult. Is it possible to disable this? The only "fix" ive...

Is there was a way to adjust the degree of transparency of the Taskbar and System Tray?

Link RemovedPeter Torr, Program Manager for Windows Phone platform, and Darin Miller, Program Manager for the Windows Phone Tools, join Jaime Rodriguez to discuss the Windows Phone beta release and its glidepath to RTM. Relevant links: Link Removed Windows Phone Training Kit Windows Phone...

how would i draw a semi-transparent rectangle with code for use with Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Taskbar.TaskbarManager.Instance.SetOverlayIcon? thanks

dotted lines in windows with the lines dure aero snap and without (no aero snap) but you cant also see it in the transparent winodows...

Most people generally ask "How do you change the background picture of your login screen?" but I already have that figured out and want to ask, is there ANY way to move the user icon box? that is the only thing I really want to change, because it gets really annoying. If anyone knows how to move...