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I figured out how to remove the blur from the taskbar!


Dblake1

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So, are you going to share the secret?

Cheers and Regards

Yes, I will release my program after I am done programming the way to re-enable the blur. It's only a ~9KB application, but it does require .NET 4.0 or higher.

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but it does require .NET 4.0 or higher.

tbh this sucks

why don't you make normal win32 app ?

Jeez, I thought I was being nice by releasing this at all. Silly me.

If it sucks so much, then why bother commenting? Use the app or don't, I honestly don't care either way. That being said, if you want to make a pure C++ GUI application that toggles the taskbar blur with the ability to run at startup and has support for taskbar position changes, be my guest. I happened to already have scraps from an old project laying around. I honestly don't see the point of wasting time re-creating this from scratch in C++ when the existing app works perfectly fine. The methods I use are complex by C# standards, which means they would be about 10x more complex and take about 10x longer to debug and write in C++.

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but it does require .NET 4.0 or higher.

tbh this sucks

why don't you make normal win32 app ?

Jeez, I thought I was being nice by releasing this at all. Silly me.

Of course it's quite nice of you to release it as it is!

That goes without saying! :yes: And I, for one, thank you very much for it. :thumbup

Now, while I don't think anyone should be complaining, I do think you might perhaps consider recompiling it with VC# 2005 instead (if at all possible), because that would reduce the .NET framework version required to 2.0, making it much lighter. The Visual C# 2005 Express Edition ISO continues to be available for free from MS, although they don't advertise it. Of course, VC# 2008 would do nicely as well, since the product is intended for Win 7, but when thinking about lighting a .NET application, VC# 2005 is perhaps the best option in what regards the funcionality to overall size ratio.

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Ha ha ha, Dblake1, I bet you thought I was being unnecessarily precise/pedantic in the .Net info I

(PM) asked you about / brought to your attention... better give these Lions above something to

chew on with their complaints about .Net... hope you return again to post in this Colosseum. Cheers

P.S. just in case he doesn't return anytime soon;

...the full .Net 4.0 is available from here;

(note the Prerequisites of;

Windows Installer 3.1 or later

Internet Explorer 5.01 or later)

http://www.microsoft...s.aspx?id=17718

dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe 48 MB

and within above webpage is also seen download link for the .Net 4.0 x86 (no x64) installer;

http://download.micr...40_Full_x86.exe

dotNetFx40_Full_x86.exe 35MB

Of course, it still expands out to something horrifyingly large, but at least the initial download

isn't too unreasonable....

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