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Transparent Taskbar is the Best Taskbar Skin!
Customize your taskbar with transparency effect and reveal striking beauty of Windows desktop!
Actual Transparent Window lets you apply a transparency effect to any window in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10. The transparency effect allows you making any window semi-transparent, with any transparency level being easily adjusted fr om 0% (not transparent, or opaque) to 100% (fully transparent, or invisible). It looks very impressive and can be highly useful with such windows as the Windows taskbar, Winamp, the Start menu, drop-down menus and lists, any instant messenger and even application windows.
If you have a decorative wallpaper, or attractive desktop colors, Actual Transparent Window lets them through to keep your desktop workarea beautiful! All you need is to make your taskbar transparent.
To do so just create specific settings for the taskbar and make sure these settings have the following values in their Target Window pane:
Then you should proceed to the Transparency property sheet, enable there the Make window transparent automatically at startup checkbox and select the desired transparency level for your taskbar.
Other options listed at the Transparency property sheet are senseless for such a specific window as taskbar and therefore shouldn't be used (except for the While mouse-hovering option).
See the following links that will be your guides in getting acquainted with Actual Transparent Window:
- Actual Transparent Window Home - the official page wh ere you can download or order the risk-free version and read what other users say about Actual Transparent Window.
- Here you can find the full information about the transparency effect and its possible applications.
Check out our articles. There you will find many other ways of transparency effect application, using new title buttons and other features that will surely make your work easier!
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Using Actual Multiple Monitors you can solve this problem in a jiffy.
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