Your pc’s wallpaper is gorgeous, clearly, however there’s one downside: the ugly white taskbar is masking a part of it up, or worse, clashing with it. The free and open-source utility TranslucentTB is an efficient technique to repair that. It is useful resource environment friendly and permits you to customise the taskbar in simply a few clicks. You possibly can obtain it from the Microsoft Retailer or Github and begin utilizing it immediately.
Customizing your Home windows taskbar with TranslucentTB
After putting in, TranslucentTB runs from the system tray. Click on the icon and you will see the choices.
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This appears like rather a lot however do not be overwhelmed: begin by deciding on an impact within the Desktop sub-menu. For Home windows 11 customers, there are 4 totally different results. There’s Regular, the default, which does not make any adjustments—you simply get the default Home windows 11 taskbar.
Regular
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Subsequent there’s Opaque, which makes the taskbar a single shade. You possibly can choose the colour utilizing the Accent Coloration possibility in the identical menu. Here is an unsightly blue I picked for some motive:
Opaque
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Subsequent now we have Clear, which makes it look because the the taskbar is not even there. This leaves you with floating icons:
Clear
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Lastly there’s my private favourite: Acrylic. This provides your taskbar a blurred transparency:
Acrylic
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There are numerous choices right here, and there is room for tweaking. For instance: the Clear setting appears fairly good when you haven’t any home windows however appears weird when the wallpaper is masking up most the whole lot. You possibly can select to have the taskbar be clear solely when there aren’t any home windows open—simply select Clear within the Desktop sub-menu and one thing else within the Seen Window sub-menu. Or possibly you solely thoughts the transparency when a window is maximized? then configure one thing apart from Clear within the Maximized window sub-menu.
There are just a few different sub-menus you possibly can configure, permitting you to configure a specific look when the beginning menu, search menu, or activity view are open. It is the form of utility you may spend a couple of minutes configuring to make your pc extra private. After that, you possibly can simply get pleasure from it.
