Your computer’s background is beautiful, but there’s one problem: the ugly white taskbar is covering part of it, or worse, clashing with it. The free and open-source application TranslucentTB is a great way to fix that. It’s resource-efficient and allows you to customize your taskbar in just a few clicks. You can download it from the Microsoft Store or Github and get started right away.
How to Make the Taskbar Transparent in Windows 10 and 11 (2024)
After installation, TranslucentTB will run from the system tray. Click on the icon and you will see the options.
This may seem like a lot, but don’t be overwhelmed: start by selecting an effect from the Desktop submenu. For Windows 11 users, there are four different effects. There’s Normal, the default, which makes no changes: you just get the standard Windows 11 taskbar.
Next up is Opaque, which makes the taskbar a single color. You can choose the color using the Accent Color option in the same menu. Here’s an ugly blue color I chose for some reason:
