Make Transparent Taskbar on Windows 10!

 Being conservative about my PC from the very beginning, I am one of those very people who was stuck with Windows XP till Windows 7 was here, skipping Vista altogether. Then same with Windows 10. I waited till early 2020 to switch to Windows 10. So I was late to W10 party. But frankly the experience in W10 is better than W8 or 8.1 for me. I am ok with almost anything with Windows 10 appearance apart from the opaque Taskbar. I have a huge desktop wallpaper collection & I like to get them changed periodically. So getting them in kinda cropped look in W10 was bugging me for a while. So I opted for "TranslucentBT", an opensource app available through Microsoft store for free. It among other functions, makes your Taskbar transparent, which suits my requirement just fine.

 

Github page of TranslucentBT - Link

Microsoft Store page - Link

(better get it from your windows 10 store directly) 

 

Here is the description of TranslucentBT from their Github page -

A lightweight (uses a few MB of RAM and almost no CPU) utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent on Windows 10.

• Advanced color picker supporting alpha and live preview to change the taskbar's color.
• Taskbar states (choose one - color can be customized on every state except Normal):
  • Blur: Will make the taskbar slightly blurred.
  • Clear: Transparent taskbar.
  • Normal: Regular Windows style. (as if TranslucentTB was not running)
  • Opaque: No transparency.
  • Fluent: Windows 10 April 2018 update and up only. Will give the taskbar an appearance similar to Microsoft's Fluent Design guidelines.
• Dynamic modes (these can be used together and each of them provides a taskbar state and color you can customize):
  • Dynamic Windows: Will change the taskbar to a different appearance if a window is currently maximized.
  • Dynamic Start Menu: Will change the taskbar appearance when the start menu is opened.
  • Dynamic Cortana: Will change the taskbar appearance when Cortana (or the search menu if Cortana is disabled) is open.
  • Dynamic Timeline/Task View: Will change the taskbar apperance when the Timeline (or Task View on older builds) is open.
• Ability to show or hide the Aero Peek button. Can be customized at will or dynamic.

 

Why I prefer Firefox for mobile browsing?

So I always had a bias for Firefox for desktop. First reason was because that was what I was introduced as first ad-free & free browser back in early 2000 by my friend. Then I found many & used many. But lately I believe Firefox is becoming my only choice for mobile(android) browsing. The reasons would be like these -

1. It's fully featured & free.

2. Customisable

3. Adblock extension/s

Lately some browsers are giving adblockers inbuilt. But they aren't as effective as uBlock provided by Firefox android version.

Now, why the sudden mumbling about Firefox on mobile? Because if you are browsing from mobile I will suggest you to use it to avoid the ads on this blog. The ads here are only exclusively from Google. So should be safe. But if you want to avoid these, just use Firefox on mobile. On PC every broswer has options to opt out advertisements.

In case you don't mind few advertisements, do keep them there for the help of the site.

Firefox android (built in uBlock) - Google playstore