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Transparent taskbar with 1703 and high contrast theme

ender
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:34:05 GMT

I just upgraded one of my computers to 1703 (SiB was upgraded to 2.0.1 before), and the taskbars are now completely transparent (except for buttons and text): [Screenshot](//muut.com/u/startisback/s3/:startisback:97RI:image1.png.jpg) They don't start up as such, however they become transparent as soon as they hide (I've got taskbars set to auto-hide). Changing the SiB taskbar theme makes the taskbar slightly less transparent, but still far more than I'd expect (it also overrides the system colours).

startisback
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:13:43 GMT

Coloring should be available for taskbar in high contrast, that would be fixed. For now you can turn high contrast off, ensure slider is set to 100% opaque and switch high contrast back on.

ender
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:59:01 GMT

This appears to work for a while, but it seems if Explorer crashes, StartIsBack removes the TaskbarAlpha value from Registry, which causes the taskbar to become transparent again.