Change the Vista Taskbar to Any Color(s) You Want

By Rich on October 16, 2008 (10 Comments)

Want to have a colorful task bar in Vista? Learn how to achieve the above look in this guide.

Achieving this effect is very simple. Simply paste a color bar over the top of your wallpaper and set the new image as wallpaper. Now when you are viewing the desktop in Vista (with Aero enabled) you can see a colorful effect on your task bar.

Creating Your Wallpaper to Change the Taskbar Color

1. Open your wallpaper in Photoshop/Paint.Net etc

2. Create a new layer with the bars provided below and align the bar to the bottom of the wallpaper

3. Save the file and set it as your wallpaper

4. Now, when you are viewing your desktop with Aero enabled, you will see a colorful bar

I put together some Photoshop and Bitmap files you can use these as the top layer — or you can make your own.

Sample Files to Use to Create Rainbow Taskbar Effect

Resolution (Width)	PSD Files	BMP Files
1024	Download	Download
1152	Download	Download
1280	Download	Download
1600	Download	Download

Screenshots of Rainbow Task Bars

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Lucien

It’s really quick and dirty.

What about taking into account the real height of the taskbar ?
What about the position of the toolbar (bottom, up, right, left) ?
What about if you change randomly the wallpaper ?

You have to adapt your solution to all this case. Quite boring !
Lucien

It’s really quick and dirty.

What about taking into account the real height of the taskbar ?
What about the position of the toolbar (bottom, up, right, left) ?
What about if you change randomly the wallpaper ?

You have to adapt your solution to all this case. Quite boring !
Lucien

It’s really quick and dirty.

What about taking into account the real height of the taskbar ?
What about the position of the toolbar (bottom, up, right, left) ?
What about if you change randomly the wallpaper ?

You have to adapt your solution to all this case. Quite boring !
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Rudyonerz

hey i was wondering how i can get my icon and all that to b on top like in the picture- mac look- my computer was acting up and wen i llogged on it was like that but changed by itself back to the regular settings.how can i get it bak?
http://richr.org/ Rich

This should help: http://www.mintywhite.com/xp/xcustomization/put-a-m…
Rudyonerz

i forgot to mention i hav windows 7-that link says it works for vista and xp ?wat do u suggest and thank you
http://richr.org/ Rich

Yes, it works with Windows 7.

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