How to make the title bar and taskbar opaque with maximized windows?


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
       #1

    How to make the title bar and taskbar opaque with maximized windows?


    In Windows Vista, when you maximized a window, its title bar and the taskbar turned opaque, but in Windows 7 they remain transparent, which bugs the hell out of me. Now I know that it can be done by disabling transparency in the appearance options, but that takes it away from the standard non-maximized windows as well, and that, on the other hand, looks really nice, and I'd want to keep that. In short, I want to make it exactly like it was in Vista. Could there be a way to acheive that by modifying the registry? Because so far I haven't found any patches to fix that. Any help will be appreciated!
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #2

    Hello and welcome Mr Freeman before you start playing in the registry if there is such a fix you need to back it up first as you can easily wreck the OS by changing stuff in there mate so do this Registry - Backup and Restore
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Hey thank you for your the backup instructions. If I actually find a way to do what I'm looking for, then I will of course backup my registry befoe doing anything to it. But I still haven't found anything.
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Yep always a good idea MF I always do that whenever I do an install and again after the original flurry of update are installed.

    I know you probably do but I do a regular weekly back up with this Imaging with free Macrium

    plus if you want to get the most out of 7 then this is worth a look at

    Optimize Windows 7
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  5. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #5

    I remember this guy had a fix for that, you might ask him as the download is not there any more

    thepanda-x (Panda X) on deviantART

    A Guy
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