Getting rid of black taskbar in Aero

[Ihmemies]

I've used Vista for a week now, and the black task&titlebars with maximized windows are really depressing. No matter how I try to change color settings, the fugly thick black color is always there. How I can get rid of it in 32-bit vista home premium?

Hacked uxtheme? Custom themes? Registry tweaks? What?

Thank you in advance. MS really should have not stripped last bits of interface customization away in Vista. In XP I could at least choose from 3 different colors.

[Linkinfamous]

Ramp up the saturation, color intensity, and brightness of your theme. You are given a great deal of control over the color of Aero when it's maximized.

[Ihmemies]

The black color won't still disappear anywhere, and fiddling with the intensity/saturation sliders make rest of Windows look really ugly. With all sliders maxed Aero gives a shy shade of green...

http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uglyaseverzk7.jpg

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Annoying.

[xirtam]

just did a quick search around and found this, it might help! :unsure:

try here http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12108

and here http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11742

Ill try this myself later, actually maybe tomorrow :p

[xirtam]

ok I Just finished what was suggested in the links I posted above, and it worked,

but there are some colour changes and tweaks in the theme that I personally am not happy with, which I wont go into now as I need sleep!

Also silly me forgot to backup the original aero theme :(

(suppose that's typical of what happens when sleep deprived)

I might get a chance to post some screen shots tomorrow!

PS. If anyone could send me the aero themes folder I would greatly appreciated it! :yes:

[lsdmeasap]

Maximized themes with full trans are posted several places here!

[Lenin91]

Rather the black thing that transparenct..