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

[mrfreeman552]

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!

 

[ICIT2LOL]

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 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4230-registry-backup-restore.html

 

[mrfreeman552]

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.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

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 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html

 

[A Guy]

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

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A Guy