I note that OPACITY is listed in the right-click menu on a friend's
Vista PC, but not here. Could that be a function of video card
capabilities? His is more robust than mine.

Right click on a Gadget, not on empty space in the sidebar.

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>I note that OPACITY is listed in the right-click menu on a friend's
> Vista PC, but not here. Could that be a function of video card
> capabilities? His is more robust than mine.[/color]

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/Richard Urban/ said:
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> >I note that OPACITY is listed in the right-click menu on a friend's
> > Vista PC, but not here. Could that be a function of video card
> > capabilities? His is more robust than mine.[/color][/color]
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> Right click on a Gadget, not on empty space in the sidebar.[/color]

Must have been what I saw. I had the impression that the opacity of the
sidebar panel itself was configurable. Apparently that is not so. Thanks.

I'd bet that the opacity function is tied to the ability to display the Aero
interface. I have both Aero and opacity on all my computers, but I don't
have any low-end non-Aero systems to test this hypothesis on.

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"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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>I note that OPACITY is listed in the right-click menu on a friend's
> Vista PC, but not here. Could that be a function of video card
> capabilities? His is more robust than mine.[/color]

/Richard G. Harper/ said:
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> I'd bet that the opacity function is tied to the ability to display the Aero
> interface. I have both Aero and opacity on all my computers, but I don't
> have any low-end non-Aero systems to test this hypothesis on.[/color]

No doubt, and Aero runs here. As mentioned in my earlier follow-up, I
may have misled myself...unless you see an opacity choice for the
sidebar itself, and not individual gadgets.