Thanks ahmedsalahais, you da man! First, the 'transparency' applied by Win 10 is a waste of time. Not interested in that. Also not interested in having to use a shortcut to open the start menu, so Classic Shell and StartIsBack don't meet my needs. The reason why the script above needs to be run every few mins is that every time you open the start menu or Cortana the transparency is lost. However, using your suggestion what I've done is create the following to a vbscript file which I've scheduled to run at logon then every minute thereafter. This runs the main script silently: CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "C:\AeroGlass\Taskbarblur.cmd", 0, True Still not an ideal solution, but another step closer. Thanks for your suggestion!