Increasing vista transparency?
- Thread starter Robert
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Just had a look how to do this and here is how.
Load up regedit and goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationColor
This is a ARGB value in the format of: AA RR GG BB.
So for a 100% black you would put 0xFFFFFFFF
For a 50% black you would put 0x80FFFFFF
For a 10% black you would put 0x0AFFFFFF
For a complete 100% transparency you can put 0x00FFFFFF (although note the FFFFFF part is meaningless because the 00 implies total transparency...)
If you don't know hexidecimal then load up Windows Calculator and put it into scientific mode. Type in a decimal value in the range of 0 to 255. Then click the "Hex" option to convert the number to hex.
Once you've made the change you need to restart the Desktop Compositor. Goto Start->Run-"services.msc". Look for "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager" and right click to restart it.
Load up regedit and goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorizationColor
This is a ARGB value in the format of: AA RR GG BB.
So for a 100% black you would put 0xFFFFFFFF
For a 50% black you would put 0x80FFFFFF
For a 10% black you would put 0x0AFFFFFF
For a complete 100% transparency you can put 0x00FFFFFF (although note the FFFFFF part is meaningless because the 00 implies total transparency...)
If you don't know hexidecimal then load up Windows Calculator and put it into scientific mode. Type in a decimal value in the range of 0 to 255. Then click the "Hex" option to convert the number to hex.
Once you've made the change you need to restart the Desktop Compositor. Goto Start->Run-"services.msc". Look for "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager" and right click to restart it.