In Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, it would be immensely usefuly to make the context obvious by giving a different color to the taskbar of each vm. But my searches on this have not revealed a solution. How do you set the Taskbar color?Beware of unmoderated moderators in the Expression Web forums.

*** I have not tried this however just a thought, might work *** You might try enabling Desktop Experience feature on 2008 R2 which might allow you to change the taskbar color. Desktop Experience Overview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772567.aspx Windows 2008 - Enable Desktop Experience - RDS and XenApp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inq59y5TxCg Change the colour of the taskbar in windows 7? - suggestions given in this discussion might work with 2008 R2 with Desktop Experience feature enabled on the OS. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/change-the-colour-of-the-taskbar-in-windows-7/a1db6f87-f340-4750-a458-5867db83fad0 Also, some what completed (possible ?) solution from similar thread Change task bar color (for both 2003 R2 and 2008 R2 terminal server clients) http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Q_26527302.html Following excerpt is the text (cut & paste) from aforementioned expert-exchange thread ! ***************************************************** by: 1stITMANPosted on 2010-10-08 at 01:54:17ID: 33858150 have a look here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617162(WS.10).aspx You can achive this by implementing group policy and creating .adm file. Here are the steps. Create a new text file called "background_color.adm" with the following content: CLASS USER CATEGORY "Desktop" CATEGORY "Custom desktop options" KEYNAME "Control Panel\Colors" POLICY "Background color" EXPLAIN "Allow you to control the background color of the user's desktop." PART "Enter the RGB values of the user's desktop background (ex: 128 128 128)" TEXT END PART PART "Color" EDITTEXT REQUIRED VALUENAME "Background" END PART END POLICY END CATEGORY END CATEGORY Save, close. Now, open the group policy manager or the AD User and computers MMC snap in, navigate to the OU that you want to apply the policy, create a new GPO and edit it. In the GPO editor, navigate to "User configuration" and the "Administrative templates". Right-click and select "Add/remove templates...". Click "Add.." and select the ADM file you just created. Close the dialog. Right-click on the "Administrative templates" entry again and select "view"->"filtering". UNcheck "only show settings that can be fully managed" (since the registry change you want to make isn't in the HKCU\policies tree, it won't show if this box is cheked). You now have a new untry under "User configuration"->"Administrative templates"->"Desktop"->"Custom desktop options" called "background color". From: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=12009443&m=520005126631&r=735005126631 Hope this helps! ***************************************************** I do not represent the organisation I work for, all the opinions expressed here are my own. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. - .... .- -. -.- ... --..-- ... .- -. - --- ... ....

*** I have not tried this however just a thought, might work *** You might try enabling Desktop Experience feature on 2008 R2 which might allow you to change the taskbar color. Desktop Experience Overview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772567.aspx Windows 2008 - Enable Desktop Experience - RDS and XenApp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inq59y5TxCg Change the colour of the taskbar in windows 7? - suggestions given in this discussion might work with 2008 R2 with Desktop Experience feature enabled on the OS. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/change-the-colour-of-the-taskbar-in-windows-7/a1db6f87-f340-4750-a458-5867db83fad0 Also, some what completed (possible ?) solution from similar thread Change task bar color (for both 2003 R2 and 2008 R2 terminal server clients) http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Q_26527302.html Following excerpt is the text (cut & paste) from aforementioned expert-exchange thread ! ***************************************************** by: 1stITMANPosted on 2010-10-08 at 01:54:17ID: 33858150 have a look here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617162(WS.10).aspx You can achive this by implementing group policy and creating .adm file. Here are the steps. Create a new text file called "background_color.adm" with the following content: CLASS USER CATEGORY "Desktop" CATEGORY "Custom desktop options" KEYNAME "Control Panel\Colors" POLICY "Background color" EXPLAIN "Allow you to control the background color of the user's desktop." PART "Enter the RGB values of the user's desktop background (ex: 128 128 128)" TEXT END PART PART "Color" EDITTEXT REQUIRED VALUENAME "Background" END PART END POLICY END CATEGORY END CATEGORY Save, close. Now, open the group policy manager or the AD User and computers MMC snap in, navigate to the OU that you want to apply the policy, create a new GPO and edit it. In the GPO editor, navigate to "User configuration" and the "Administrative templates". Right-click and select "Add/remove templates...". Click "Add.." and select the ADM file you just created. Close the dialog. Right-click on the "Administrative templates" entry again and select "view"->"filtering". UNcheck "only show settings that can be fully managed" (since the registry change you want to make isn't in the HKCU\policies tree, it won't show if this box is cheked). You now have a new untry under "User configuration"->"Administrative templates"->"Desktop"->"Custom desktop options" called "background color". From: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=12009443&m=520005126631&r=735005126631 Hope this helps! ***************************************************** I do not represent the organisation I work for, all the opinions expressed here are my own. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. - .... .- -. -.- ... --..-- ... .- -. - --- ... ....