Bob J

Sidebar > Properties > untick side sidebar on top of other windows
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Bob J


"Ed" wrote:

> OK I may be daft, but for the life of me I cannot figure this out. I'm
> running Vista Business, BTW.
>
> My sidebar has a translucent black background to it, so it appears as a
> black vertical ribbon behind all my gadgets. At the store today, I saw a
> bunch of laptops for sale that had Vista running (one of them was the exact
> HP laptop I own). Anyway, two or three of them had totally transparent (i.e.,
> non-existent) backgrounds - it just looked like the gadgets themselves right
> over the desktop.
>
> The gadgets weren't removed from the sidebar and just placed there - you
> could tell because they were the smaller, docked size and you also could see
> the + and arrows of the sidebar at the top.
>
> My question is, how the hell do I make my background transparent, too? I've
> tried right-clicking in the sidebar and going to Personalise, but there's
> nothing there. I've tried changing colour schemes, themes, etc., but no dice.
> I've searched this group but have found no answers.
>
> Anyone know?