Lovers of aesthetics, this article is especially for you. Although it won’t make your screen 10 times prettier and as minor it may seem, we just couldn’t resist revealing how to disable shadow behind active windows in Windows 10.
For people scared of shadows, they’re not as scary in Windows as they are in real life. You may not be able to get rid of a shadow in the real world but Microsoft has made it possible to disable shadow behind active windows in Windows 10. So, what even is the shadow in Windows?
Basically, the shadow is a UI feature of Windows that shows up whenever a specific window is not the one being worked on but is still appearing on the desktop. This, many times ignored, minute feature of Windows almost goes unnoticed a lot of times but as tiny as it may seem, it does however informs the user about other windows being out of scope. You may not want to tinker and play around with a feature of this small significance but if you’re an extremist, aesthetically, this is how you can disable shadow in Windows 10.
This small feature luckily requires just a few seconds of work. Launch the Control Panel and then select ‘System & Security’. Then click on System and then select ‘Advanced Settings’ from the sidebar as shown below in the snippet.
Then, In the System Properties, go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and click ‘Settings’ under the ‘Performance’ section. In the ‘Visual Effects’ tab a long checklist will appear of UI related features. Look for ‘Show shadows under Windows’ and uncheck it. Click apply and you’re welcome as shown in the snippet below.
The shadow also seems missing with a darker background so that’s another way of getting it to somewhat disappear. It will be gone for as long as you want it to but if you feel lonely and think that maybe its time for the poor fellow to come back and rightfully take its place on the title bar then simply follow all these steps back. Go through the long checklist again and simply recheck the ‘Show shadows under windows’. Click Apply again and there you go, you’ve disabled shadow behind active windows!
Simple as it is, customization has gone to a whole new level in the Windows 10 and finally it seems that the perfect user experience that Microsoft so badly wanted to deliver is finally edging ever so closer.
In related tips, you may want to learn how to bring back Aero Glass / Blur effect in Windows 10.
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