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Offline Fineus

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on: June 20, 2004, 02:16:53 pm
As the title says, I'm trying to jazz up my explorer shell a bit (everything else I tried was either impractical or clunky and resource-sapping).

To that end I'd like to make the background of the start menu partially transparent... I'm talking about just the start menu that pops up when you click "start"... not the task bar.

Anyone have any ideas? Maybe some kind of registry edit...
 

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Reply #1 on: June 20, 2004, 03:09:07 pm
[color=66ff00]I'm assuming it's XP; if so google throws up lots of answers.

This one looks like a good bet and I think it's freeware: http://www.tweakxp.com/displaySoft.aspx?id=14239
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Reply #2 on: June 21, 2004, 05:32:48 am
ObjectDesktop. 'Nuff said.
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Reply #3 on: June 21, 2004, 08:35:30 am
Object Desktop owns. I still use WindowBlinds. Unfortunately, my registration for the rest of Stardock's expired a couple of years back. :p
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Reply #4 on: June 21, 2004, 04:04:44 pm
I wish my computer was fast enough to run it decently.

Sooon, my precioussssss.....
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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