[Cryphyx]

When I boot my computer, my start menu is transparent which makes it look very nice, then when I load firefox or microsoft messenger or something, my screen flickers and the start menu is no longer transparent and never goes back. is there a setting or somethign to make sure that it stays transparent? or why is the color going solid, what reason

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

most likely the transparency is a fault. I don't no what would cause this but its probably the case. If you go onto control panel you should be able to change the setting on the colour etc. perhaps transparent too.

[Cryphyx]

it BEING transparent is a fault, or it stopping being transparent is a fault? I know its SUPPOSE to be transparent, my friends computer it does it fine, its suppose to do it automaticly and I dont know why on mine it does for a short while until I load an application.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

ah ok.. in that case you just want to hope for the easiest and go into the control panel then i think its called something like taskbar and start menu you should be able to choose the colours and then transparency should be an option within that.

[Cryphyx]

no option for color or transparency =\

[Jon264]

Do you mean that it goes from aero glass style (transparent windows) to vista basic style (blue edged windows with red boxes)?

[Cryphyx]

it doesnt change to XP style, it just changes from transparent to solid colors. the colors are all the same just not transparent any more.

[Hybr!d]

I have the same problem when I open Macromedia Fireworks and MSN Messenger.

I am pretty sure it's down to graphics drivers, but nvidia still haven't fixed it...

[Cryphyx]

yeah i figured it was probably something like that. do you know if/when the ATI Radeon x800GT will have drivers that will fix it?

[Hybr!d]

Try their website mate, new graphics drivers are released pretty frequently.