Vista Maximised Windows Transparency

mrk · 4 Jun 2007 at 07:27

Thought most of you would like this.
Over at Neowin a user has released patch to enable the titlebar transparency and taskbar transparency when a window is maximised, it is quite awesome on all levels as I was wondering why this was not a part of Vista to start with.

Works well!

benjo plz. · 4 Jun 2007 at 07:34

excellent.

Alex UK · 4 Jun 2007 at 08:18

Very nice.

PinkPig · 4 Jun 2007 at 08:35

It makes it look incredibly confusing! Having "almost visible" icons behind the title bar of a maximised window seems useless to me. I suppose if you really like the look of it it's alright, but I can certainly see why they didn't make it look like that to begin with!

TrUz · 4 Jun 2007 at 08:47

If you have a window maximised then usually it is for a reason. I see no reason to be have a maximised window transparent.

TrUz

mrk · 4 Jun 2007 at 08:51

If you don't like it you don't like it

This is for people who do like it

Besides who has multiple icons on their desktop eh, you messy people!

NathanE · 4 Jun 2007 at 09:01

It's a bit Marmite which is why they hid it away as a Registry hack.

indyskyz · 4 Jun 2007 at 09:03

i found this yesterday allong with the media center theme together there awesome

took me a while to work out the uxtheme patch tho and where the themes had to go

notice the transparent start menu

taskbar and maximised window

Ol!ver · 27 Jun 2007 at 20:44

indyskyz said:
i found this yesterday allong with the media center theme together there awesome

took me a while to work out the uxtheme patch tho and where the themes had to go

notice the transparent start menu
taskbar and maximised window

Any chance of linking to a bigger picture? Not seen the MCE theme.

snowdog · 27 Jun 2007 at 20:54

Cool, its nice, works fine on vista ultimate x64 :cool:

.

SkeeterUK · 28 Jun 2007 at 11:57

Looks crap imo. Taskbar with aero transparency is a terrible idea.

benjo plz. · 28 Jun 2007 at 14:44

SkeeterPSA said:
Looks crap imo. Taskbar with aero transparency is a terrible idea.

Taskbar is transparent in normal aero.

TheVoice · 28 Jun 2007 at 15:08

Some Vista themes:
http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=11976

That media centre one is here:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/56038002/

SkeeterUK · 28 Jun 2007 at 17:54

Phnom_Penh said:
Taskbar is transparent in normal aero.

Hardly noticable tho the taskbar (bottom screen bar)

snowdog · 28 Jun 2007 at 18:07

The guy who made a pic was using a different than default theme for vista, in addition to having this mod...

This thing does nothing more than make the top bar in maximized windows tranperent, like they are when not maximized, it doesn't change how transparent it is or anything else, the theme you are using decides that...

bledd · 28 Jun 2007 at 21:13

TrUz said:
If you have a window maximised then usually it is for a reason. I see no reason to be have a maximised window transparent.

TrUz

yeah, if anything you could be effecting system performance (albeit slightly)