Once you position the skin, Rainmeter will remember that position and load it there every time. You would need to drag this skin to your taskbar location so it appears behind it and adds the effect. it is a static skin that does not move with changes to the taskbar. How come this method just spawns a partially transparent horizontal colored bar across the top of my screen? How do I change it to be vertical? Is it supposed to just be a static skin that doesn't move with the rest of the taskbar if the auto-hide option is initialized? Currently just commenting out the custom code in favor of coloring the animated taskbar.Because that is all it does.