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Windows 8.1 Task Bar Transparency?

Perixx
By Perixx
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Okay, so I was watching the WAN show a couple weeks back and I saw that on the laptop they were using, it seemed to be running windows 8.1, but I noticed the taskbar was transparent. From what I understand, aero or full transparency was removed in windows 8, so how was this so? Was it the simple process of downloading something to restore it, or is there something I can do without installing anything?

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aero as a named feature is gone. however all of its features were integrated into WDDM. Aslong as you don't have the theme set to basic mode it should be transparent.

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You want an invisible taskbar a la Chrome OS? I've read a few ways to do it but most are either buggy or are hit and miss.

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