Sergey Tkachenko, Author at Winaero

Download Opaque Taskbar for Windows 8

Opaque Taskbar for Windows 8.

With help of this simple and lightweight application you will be able to make your taskbar Opaque in any time you want it. It does not stay in memory and does not consume your PC's resources.
Opaque Taskbar for Windows 8 has special options to run at Windows startup and restore Taskbar transparency.

This app has been superseded by Winaero Tweaker and is no longer being maintained. Use the following options from Winaero Tweaker:

You can download Winaero Tweaker here: Download Winaero Tweaker.

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Beautiful theme for Windows 8

Winter Trees theme for Windows 8

As it became known, Windows 9 and Windows Blue will remain support for deskthemepack file format. So our theme can be used with modern and upcoming versions of Windows.

Ultimate Clean 8 theme for Windows 8

Lemondrop theme for Windows 8

Winter 8 theme for Windows 8

Ambient Remix theme for Windows 8

How to customize the Windows 8 boot experience

Windows 8 introduces a new boot experience, which has undocumented hidden options. As our friend KNARZ discovered, they can be tweaked. Today, I will explain which commands can be used to disable the Windows 8 boot logo and the spinning animation, as well as how to enable advanced boot options and bring back the "classic" Windows 7 boot experience.

Download Boot UI Tuner

Boot UI Tuner.

Boot UI Tuner allows you to set some hidden settings of boot manager in Windows 8, i.e. to disable Windows boot logo, spinning circle, enable advanced boot options many more.

Skip Metro Suite

Grand update is here - Skip Metro Suite 3.1.
We have completely redesigned it. Now it is just one portable *.exe file! See full change log below
P.S. Please uninstall all previous versions of Skip Metro Suite before you will start to use version 3.1

Attention to all Windows 8.1 users.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE THIS APP! You should look to the following apps and articles:

<a class='bbcode' href='https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-skip-the-start-screen-and-boot-directly-to-desktop-in-windows-8-1
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Winaero Charms Bar Killer
The native way to disable Charms Bar completely in Windows 8.1

Maybe you already known what Windows 8 won't allow you to boot directly to Classic Desktop. Instead of that you have to click on "Desktop" tile every time you logged in. This is very annoying behavior for all of us who prefer to work with Class Desktop instead of Metro Start Screen. So I decide to fix it.
Skip Metro Suite for Windows 8 allows you to boot directly to Classic Desktop in Windows 8 RTM and Release Preview. Also it allows you completely disable all edge panels, not just hide them! All of them will be disabled, including square start button at bottom-left corner.

Also it features all tweaks from our latest article "How to disable the edge panels (Charms Bar and Switcher) in Windows 8".Since version 2.0 it uses own method to kill hot corners.Skip Metro Suite allows you to disable top-left hot corner (aka Switcher) and Charms Bar hint. So, you need no tweaks anymore to perform all of these tasks.

How to uninstall Skip Metro Suite

Author: Sergey Tkachenko