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How to get rid of taskbar border?
With the upgrade to WIndow 11 there came a new taskbar which has a most annoying "feature":
Right above the taskbar there is a semitransparent "border-area" (same color as the taskbar, about half the height of the taskbar itself, see my screenshot below where I marked this area with a red frame) which covers the lower end of the desktop. What does that border signal or what is it meant for? It sits "on top", i.e. Windows disappear behind that border (visible e.g. the right end of my screenshot).
Odd enough that "border-area" only appears on my laptop display. On the attached external monitor (on which I also display the taskbar) there is no such border.
Why is that so and how can I get rid of this? IMHO its just a waste of screen real-estate and it again and again gets into my way when I want to click or touch anything that is close to the bottom edge of a window (e.g. horizontal scroll bars).
For anyone hitting this question: this "border" is an (obviously buggy) consequence of the OpenShell setting called "Customize taskbar", which I had enabled. It apparently allowed to make the taskbar transparent (with adjustable transparency values).
I don't know why one would want to have that and I also don't recall if, why and when I had set that option. Maybe that setting got copied over from my earlier Windows version. Unchecking/disabling this option made that additional border disappear.For those that don't know OpenShell: OpenShell (https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/) is an add-on that allows you to have a classic Windows 7 style start menu on your system. It did away with the brain-damaged Windows start menu "tiles" UI that had been introduced with Windows 8 and which had later been slightly changed into the current (but IMHO still unusable) Windows 10 and 11 start menu. This is always one of the first applications that I install on a fresh Windows system...
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For anyone hitting this question: this "border" is an (obviously buggy) consequence of the OpenShell setting called "Customize taskbar", which I had enabled. It apparently allowed to make the taskbar transparent (with adjustable transparency values).
I don't know why one would want to have that and I also don't recall if, why and when I had set that option. Maybe that setting got copied over from my earlier Windows version. Unchecking/disabling this option made that additional border disappear.For those that don't know OpenShell: OpenShell (https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/) is an add-on that allows you to have a classic Windows 7 style start menu on your system. It did away with the brain-damaged Windows start menu "tiles" UI that had been introduced with Windows 8 and which had later been slightly changed into the current (but IMHO still unusable) Windows 10 and 11 start menu. This is always one of the first applications that I install on a fresh Windows system...
I also want to remove the taskbar border. What about reducing the transparency of the taskbar and making it glossy?
