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Visual Basic Set Transparency Level of Windows Taskbar (Windows 2000)

Article by: Leontti A. Ramos M. (8/2/2002)
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With this simple and small program you can make your windows taskbar transparent, or set the level of transparency of the taskbar. Includes impressive preview, registry save, and autoload option features. Please e-mail me with your comments!

NOTE: It works only with Win2K.

Updates

2/20/2002 - Version 1.2. With this new release, you can make Desktop icons background transparent.

 

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User Comments on ' Visual Basic Set Transparency Level of Windows Taskbar (Windows 2000)'
Posted by :  Archive Import (joshua) at 20:45 on Thursday, August 29, 2002
Great program....
I like this, and when i show to my friend she impresed.

Why this program cannot run well at win9x
and how to make it work.
Posted by :  Archive Import (Xaimus) at 17:26 on Friday, January 10, 2003
It does not run in Win9x because Win9x has no support for transparency. Win2k and above do.


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