M11x power saver taskbar problems..

Hi all! I just recently picked up my M11x and I'm loving it! The build quality is a step down from my HP laptop (the plastic feels a bit cheap!) but that is the price I have to pay for such cheap, portable power . There are a few tweaks and things that I am trying to figure out.. but one of my main issues that I cant for the life of me figure out is the following:

My taskbar, which is normally transparent black in balanced\high perf, turns solid white and pretty unusable anytime I go into power saver mode (I uploaded a pic, but I cant link to another site without 15 posts!). Ive looked around for Aero configuration stuff but I just cannot find it, and I dont know that it would fix the problem. Im also having difficulties with my various power setting changes saving... such as screen dimming (but I saw that mentioned in a previous thread when I was looking around at work so Ill read up on it later). In any case, it annoys me that I cant go into powersaver mode without a horrendous looking taskbar. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Oh and one more quick question. Is there any way to add more than one power option to the little "one click" battery icon? I only have power saver and balanced, and I cannot get high performance on that list either.

Thank you kindly! I know these are probably Windows 7 questions and probably not M11x related, but I hope someone can help

 

Admin, can you please delete this thread? My stupid self figured it out. Thanks!