Windows 8 Transparent Taskbar

You can do it if you switch to the Aero lite theme, see and.Open C:windowsresourcesthemes.theme with notepad.Under the key VisualStyles change the pointer to Aero.msstyles to point to AeroLite.msstyles.Save the file (you can't actually, so save it to another location).Double click your.theme fileNow your Taskbar is no longer translucent:To apply it on the current theme, see below.The downside of these approaches is that the Aero lite theme looks different (take a look at your minimize-restore-close buttons and etc) from the normal Windows 8 Aero theme. @JosephQuinsey, It works, but you need to rename it to something else (e.g.

1. Windows 8.1 Taskbar

Opaque Taskbar is a free software for Windows 8 that lets you disable the transparency of taskbar and make it opaque. Microsoft has introduced many exciting features like Metro apps, Start Screen, and Charms in its latest OS version, Windows 8. But it has also removed some usual features from this version, which makes Windows 8 quite annoying. 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.

Windows 8.1 Taskbar

Custom1.theme or move it to another folder. If you try to run.theme files from a path equal to%localappdata%microsoftwindowsthemescustom.theme, Windows doesn't actually run the file, but merely opens the page Control PanelAppearance and PersonalizationPersonalization (and after opening the page, it will recreate a file called Custom.theme from your 'current theme settings' (I've no idea where these settings are saved to).–Jun 25 '15 at 0:39.