Make Vista Right Click Menu Transparent

Windows Vista Aero feature offers new transparencies glass effects for various components such as Start Menu and borders of window. However, one of the commonly used function, right click contextual menu, a list of contextually targeted command items or options that appears when users right click with mouse on an object such as folder, desktop, taskbar and etc, has a solid background interface which is not of translucency nature.

Solid original right click menu in Vista
If the Start Menu can have transparent background, it’s not sure why the right click menu can’t have the transparency glass effect applied to the right click menu too. But hope is not lost with a program hack.

Y’z Shadow is free software utility that adds a shadow effect to the windows, with the additional feature to make menus transparent as in Aero transparency effect in Windows Vista. Yz Shadow, which can be downloaded for free, is perfect too to make the right click contextual menu in Vista to has transparency glass see-through effect.

However, Y’z Shadow officially does not support Windows Vista. It only supports Windows XP. If users attempt to run YzShadow.exe in Vista, a halt error message “Only works in Windows XP.” will appear.

Y’z Shadow in Vista Error

The stop error doesn’t mean Y’z Shadow cannot be used in Vista. Here’s the trick to make Y’z Shadow works and run in Windows Vista, by using “Compatibility Mode”. Right click on YzShadow.exe, then click on “Properties”. In YzShadow Properties dialog, tick the check box of “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” option, and then select “Windows XP (Service Pack 2)” from the drop down list menu. Click OK when done, and run Y’z Shadow again.

YzShadow Compatibility in Vista

Vista Right Click Menu Transparency Aero Glass Effect

And, voila, the right click menu in Vista now has transparency glass effect. The level of the transparency can be set in the Settings option on right clicking the taskbar’s system tray icon.


2 Responses to “Make Vista Right Click Menu Transparent”

  1. Martin
    January 27th, 2008 04:46
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    This is not Glass effect! This is only transparency. That’s a BIG difference…

  2. Trucco: rendere trasparente il menù contestuale di Vista - BlogVista
    January 7th, 2008 23:13
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    [...] Per prima cosa onore al merito: l’articolo originale inglese di MyDigitalLife è reperibile qui. [...]

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