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Today I accidentally stumbled upon a hidden gem in Windows 10, a registry setting that activates high transparency for the Taskbar. It’s the UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency registry value that does the magic.

Increase Taskbar Transparency Level

1. Click Start, type Regedit.exe and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

2. Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency

3. Double-click UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency and set its value data to 1

4. Exit the Registry Editor.

5. Right-click Desktop, click Personalize

6. Click Color, and enable all the three options:

Automatically pick accent color from my background

Show color on Start, taskbar, action center, and title bar

Make Start, taskbar and action center transparent

Note: If they’re already enabled, turn off one of the three settings and then toggle it back on . This is done in order to apply the above registry edit without requiring to restart the Shell.

Download Registry File for this setting – W10-OLED-Taskbar-Transparency.zip

The high transparency taskbar mode (OLED) is activated. Here are some screenshots, before and after applying the registry setting:

At the background is the lovely Beauty of Britain theme wallpaper.

Closer shots.

While this registry edit doesn’t achieve 100% taskbar transparency, it’s still a super tweak that most users will like for sure. This was first tested in 10586.104, and works just fine in later builds.

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