Taskbar with no highlights?

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Hello all.

 

I hope my post is appropriate here; I don't actually own Windowblinds, I'm just trying to find a way to do what I want. If Windowblinds can do it, I'll buy it immediately.

 

Mainly, I just want the highlights gone from my Windows 7 taskbar. By highlights, I'm referring to the illuminated boxes that distinguish open applications from those that are simply pinned to the taskbar. I find them rather ugly, and I'd prefer for opened and pinned apps to be visually indistinguishable. Here's a picture of my current taskbar: <a href="http://i48.tinypic.com/kevjmb.png">http://i48.tinypic.com/kevjmb.png</a>. The first three icons have highlights, the next two don't.

 

Will Windowblinds be able to knock that way for me?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Windowblinds can do that. Of course this depends on the design of the skin you are using

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yes, Windowblinds can do that... though realistically you will need Windowblinds and SkinStudio (the software that creates/changes skins.)  Most/many windowblinds skins use highlighting, but it is a pretty easy task in SkinStudio to remove it. Basically you'd just change the graphic that makes the highlight into one that is 100% transparent using your favorite graphics program.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yes, Windowblinds can do that... though realistically you will need Windowblinds and SkinStudio (the software that creates/changes skins.) Most/many windowblinds skins use highlighting, but it is a pretty easy task in SkinStudio to remove it. Basically you'd just change the graphic that makes the highlight into one that is 100% transparent using your favorite graphics program.

That will only work on a third party skin.. not default 7 Aero.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting vStyler, reply 3

That will only work on a third party skin.. not default 7 Aero.

Yes, of course. I probably should have mentioned that, I just sort of assumed that would be known which probably wasn't a safe assumption!