

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix. To apply this hotfix, you must have Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 installed. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language. The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, go to the following Microsoft website:

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Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem described in this article. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. This problem most frequently occurs in a Microsoft Office 2013 application or a third-party product.Ī supported hotfix is available from Microsoft Support. When you start an application in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, a blank or transparent window and a blank or transparent taskbar preview are displayed. When done, you should have an UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency value set to 1 as shown in the image below.Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard More.Double-click on UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency and set the value to 1 and then press the OK button. Type UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency and press Enter on the keyboard. You will be prompted to enter the name of the new value.Right-click on Search and select New and then DWORD (32-bit) Value as shown below.Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced key.Windows will display a UAC prompt asking if you wish to allow the Registry Editor to make changes to the system.To do that, press the Windows key + the R key at the same time to open the Run: dialog and then type Regedit and press the OK button. As you cannot launch programs via Windows Search, we need to launch the Registry Editor via the Run: dialog.This can be done via the Registry Editor using the following steps below: "UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency"=dword:00000001
