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How to Make the Taskbar Transparent in Windows 11 + Video
Set transparent Taskbar in Windows 11 without an app from Settings
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Updated onMarch 4, 2024
updated onMarch 4, 2024
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Windows 11 supports a transparent Taskbar, and this feature can be enabled in a matter of seconds, but many reported that they aren’t pleased with how it works.
In today’s guide, we’ll show you how to use this feature and customize your Taskbar further with a few tricks.
How do I make the Taskbar transparent in Windows 11?
1. Use the Personalization option
2. Use the Visual effects option
3. Use the Registry
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Use OLED Taskbar Transparency
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Modify the ForceEffectMode
To have even more control over the design, color, placement, or a transparent taskbar in Windows 11, download these apps for the best results when it comes to customization.
However, we have a great article focused onhow to customize your Windows 11 using Registry Editor, so you might want to look at it and try a few steps.
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Enter Microsoft Store and typetranslucent tbin the search bar. Click onGetto start downloading the app. Alternatively, you can also click here onGet TranslucentTBto download the app.
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After the download is complete, clickOpenin order to open TranslucentTB.
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A pop-up will appear after you open the app. ClickContinue.
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Your Windows 11 taskbar will be fully transparent afterward. Note that the app will also make the Windows 10 taskbar transparent.
What features does the free TranslucentTB app offer?
For those trying to figure out how to make my taskbar 100% transparent, it’s possible with TranslucentTB. It’s the best transparent taskbar Windows 11 app, but you can also make it opaque or introduce a blur effect.
In addition to overriding your color and additional settings for the taskbar, this app combines states such as maximized window, Start Menu open, Cortana open, and Timeline open.
Each one of them has a customizable taskbar appearance to offer you an overall pleasant aspect, personalized to your liking.
For a free app, you have quite a few elements to customize the taskbar. And to make things even better, there’s aTips and tricks optionthat teaches you some really cool things.
Get Microsoft TaskbarX
If you are looking for another way to achieve the transparent taskbar effect and more, you can also try the Microsoft TaskbarX app for a very small fee.
What features does Microsoft’s TaskbarX offer?
This app is worthy of your attention as there are quite a handful of features to design, customize, or change every aspect of your taskbar.
You can even move it to the left and have it transparent at the same time with thePositionoption that allows you to adjust the taskbar icons’ placement. Quite neat, isn’t it?
There are other categories on this configurator, such asStylewhich manages the transparency level or color of your taskbar, andAnimationwhich controls how the taskbar icons move when you open a new app.
Simply put, you can definitely have some fun with TaskbarX as it gives you so many options to choose from to personalize your taskbar.
If you’re looking for more information on the OS’s taskbar, learnhow to use the Never combine feature in Windows 11.
Get TaskbarTools
TaskbarTools is a small free tool that allows you to customize the taskbar to your liking, change its color, and more.
And although its latest version dates from 2017, we tested it on Windows 11, and it worked flawlessly. The great thing about this tool is that you can see the changes in real time. So, if other options for a Windows 11 transparent taskbar are not working, you know which app to go for.
Make the Taskbar transparent with Classic Shell
Classic Shell was stopped from development in 2017, but it still works perfectly, so you might try it.
For more customization options, we have a great guide on how tochange the Taskbar size on Windows 11, as well as a guide on how tomove the Windows 11 Taskbar to the top.
You can also set up avertical Taskbar on Windows 11, and we have a guide that shows you how to do that.
We hope that this guide helps you enjoy Windows 11 a bit more. If you have any questions, feel free to use the comments section below, and we’ll get back to you.
More about the topics:Taskbar,Windows 11
Loredana Harsana
Windows Software Expert
Loredana is a passionate writer with a keen interest in PC software and technology. She started off writing about mobile phones back when Samsung Galaxy S II was on top of the world and she fell in love with tech of all sorts.
Whenever she’s not at her work desk, you’ll find her enjoying refreshing tea flavors, spilling stories on paper, and listening to the radio.
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