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In my recently installed Windows 11 I have chosen the transparency settings like this:
However, none of the screen elements show any transparency whatsoever. Why is that? Have I missed something?
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If your problems is still not solved, try updating your GPU driver, it may fix it.
If your problems is still not solved, try updating your GPU driver, it may fix it.
I have now installed 22H2. Transparency is still the same - barely noticeable. The only two exceptions seem to be the taskbar widget and the title bar of the Terminal window.
Power saver is not enabled. As to the graphic driver, I am running a freshly installed Windows 11 Pro on the Microsoft's very own Surface Pro 8 (highest spec) which was launched only a few months ago. I expect the driver aspects should have been taken care of by the vendor (Microsoft in this case, both for software and for hardware!).
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Are you using a Amd graphic card, because right now there's a driver bug causing transparency issues.
No. The graphic card is an integrated Intel Iris Xe on a brand new Surface Pro 8. It is exactly the same on my older Surface Pro 4.
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I'm sorry, but did you seriously say you expect Microsoft (or the vendor, as you call them..) to take care of your drivers for you ?
Also, @Coolcats gave you a legitimate possible solution to your problem, but you shrug it of as "I'm expecting" instead of atleast checking..
Stop having expectations and do some troubleshooting yourself- if you want to fix your issue.
As said above, update your graphics drivers (try downloading from Intel's website also).
If the issue is still present I would highly advise you to save yourself time and sanity and just reset the system.
I know it is "brand new" and you "expect" it to work flawlessly, but no modern technology is flawless (especialy Windows OS) and a lot of the time a simple reset will do wonders.
The transparency will only apply to specific places like:
There is no transparency inside the Settings app itself, although enabling this option will allow your wallpaper color to shine through. If you turn it off, the Settings window will turn gray instead.
Thanks CmdrKeene! Whatever transparency there might be on those items (or any other for that matter), in my case it is practically imperceptible. And it is equally imperceptible on my Surface Pro 4, my Surface Pro 8, my external DellU2722DE monitors and on my old Dell Dimension desktop and its Dell U2410 monitor powered by a Nvidia Quadro FX1800 card. It looks like this:
It sure looks like it's working to me, I see the subtle transparency in the sides of the taskbar on the left and right.
Since there's a very white page behind the start menu, it's not surprising that you see just a white start menu. Put something very bright and colorful behind it and I bet it shines through enough to at least be noticed. But the muted nature of it is a design choice of the designers so don't expect it to be very much. You may not like it, but that doesn't mean it's broken. You can give them your feedback in the feedback hub or use 3rd party software like Stardock or other tools to augment the style to your liking.
Here's an example where you can see the blue/green/red background shining through (a little).
I see your point. And you are right, it does boil down to personal preferences. For me, it is way too "subtle". In my example above I would expect to at least see a blurred hint of black text. The way we had it in previous versions of Windows was OK; or the way Apple has it in MacOS. Or at least the way the same Windows 11 has it right now in the implementation of the Taskbar widget:
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This transparency issue is absolutely a bug introduced in 22H2. It's on my work computers, and my surface pro at home. I managed to roll back one of the work computers in time to 21H2 (today Nov. 1 2022), before being locked out of the 10 day window, this fixed the transparency problem. All computers are different with different GPU's. The other issue is, if you open an explorer window, and attempt to drag and drop a file of any kind, there is a solid white background around it, completely obscuring your view when trying to drop it in another folder or anywhere for that matter, however, if you grab a file from the desktop, the transparency is working perfectly.
Not sure where to escalate this problem.
