Windows 10 Preview on Surface Pro 3

[bluegrass]

Now how do you get a transparent taskbar or make it choose a color from your background image?

My taskbar has the same aero-glass transparency blur. Depending on the picture background it might not be real obvious though.

 

[r0b123]

I really like the Aero glass effect. Also came across a tip for the Dark Theme which I've only seen applied on the Settings page...

1. Open Regedit
2. Create New DWORD value SystemUsesLightTheme, then under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize
3. Set value to 0, then reboot
4. To revert to Light Theme, set to 1 and reboot.

 

[bluegrass]

Maybe you could show some screen shots of light versus dark. I changed mine to dark and don't see any difference when looking at the start screen or the desktop screen. I didn't see the "SpecialUsesLightTheme" listed in the registry. Oops. I forgot to create the new Dword. Do I need to change to the new Special Theme or should the theme that I've been using change? I just went thought Personalization to Themes and didn't see the new Special them in the list anywhere.

 

[bluegrass]

Settings > Personalization > Colors > Automatically pick a color from my background

Settings > Personalization > Colors > Show color on taskbar and Start menu.

Settings > Personalization > Colors > Make Start menu transparent.

I imagine this only works for the 50% that got the transparency. I think you still would need to do the registry edit that Colorado posted above.

 

[mitchellvii]

Just got a W10 update. After install Chrome seems much happier.

 

[razy60]

The regedit that sharpcolorado posted was already preset in the update t0 10074 on mine, not sure why as i have never touched that before.

 

[sharpuser]

Microsoft's Gabe Aul has said there’s a 50 percent chance that your Start menu of Build 10074 will include the Aero Glass transparency, giving it the appearance of “frosted glass.” .

Welcome to the 50% (all of us).

 

[Anders Östling]

same problem with me using my MWDA it lags and it has screen graphics tearing when playing VLC and Video... returned to 8.1 coz mostly I used MWDA... I think its the intel hd graphics that needs update

Can you please point me to the latest Intel drivers?

 

[Kris]

Settings > Personalization > Colors > Automatically pick a color from my background

Doesn't work...whatever color I last chose stays no matter what.

 

[r0b123]

Maybe you could show some screen shots of light versus dark. I changed mine to dark and don't see any difference when looking at the start screen or the desktop screen. I didn't see the "SpecialUsesLightTheme" listed in the registry. Oops. I forgot to create the new Dword. Do I need to change to the new Special Theme or should the theme that I've been using change? I just went thought Personalization to Themes and didn't see the new Special them in the list anywhere.

I went thru a few apps and other than Settings and Calculator, the Dark Theme regedit does not seem to affect other apps or areas like Start menu. It is great that it complements the Notifications bar and especially nice since most of the W10 themes are light color and having the dark setting resembles Windows Phone and saves your eyes. Below are screenshots.

Light

Dark

 

[cmergel]

Finally made the jump to Windows 10 (10074) on my Surface Pro 3 work machine. I'm all in!

 

[sharpuser]

Glad to have you previewing with us, @cmergel