Can this wierd blur/fog be removed from the taskbar area?

[dncwalk99]

I'm trying to make a taskbar that has transparent areas above and below it, but i get this blur/fog.  Any ideas?

[Panda X]

The blur can't be removed because it's hardcoded into explorer. You have to have an image that covers the whole taskband unfortunately.

[dncwalk99]

Thnx for the reply PandaX.  Another question then... Would it be possible to have taskitembutton's that are bigger than the taskbar and not have that blur?

[dncwalk99]

Something interesting... I've been using 1.5 with the 1.6 XML and Base.  I opened up another theme from deviantart and guess what... no blur.  At this point I don't think it's explorer...  it's Base.  I just don't know where at. It's also in stock Aero.  I'm going to run a diff on this one that doesn't have it and try to narrow down what it is.

[Panda X]

All base does it reroute static properties in the shellstyle.dll to the msstyles, it wouldn't have anything to do with DWM. Which theme did you download out of curiosity?