I found a small program a while back that let me disable the Aero Blur while keeping the transparency that came with the theme. The program worked on literally everything, except for the taskbar which still appears to blur everything that happens to be underneath it.
This curious behavior led me to experimenting with the DWM api, in C++. Sadly, this didn't really help me at all, since no matter what functions I'd use - like DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow() -, none of them would actually affect the taskbar in a way that I wanted them to. I even tried turning the alpha levels of the taskbar's owner "window" down, but sadly that didn't work either - It made the taskbar icons transparent too which is a no-no for me, and it didn't actually remove the blur it just made the effect weaker.
As it seems that my skills are not enough to accomplish this task, I'm asking you - how can I remove the Aero blur from the Windows 7 taskbar? (Possibly using C++)
I found a small program that will remove the blur.