WindowGhost provides cool transparent window and menu effects. Arrange your windows more efficiently with WindowGhost! With this desktop enhancement, windows become transparent (ghost-looking) when they are moved or resized, allowing you to partially "see through" to other windows in the background. Makes organizing windows more efficient and allows you to better control the window real estate on your monitor.

Quick Shell adds options to the system menu of all windows to make them always on top,
transparent or collapse them to the titlebar. Also, menus can be made transparent.
For Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.

Martin's Transparent Windows adds a transparency option to the system menu of all programs, making it possible to obscure any window on your desktop.

People looking over your shoulder, want to use MSN descreetly in the office... use transparent windows to set the transparency to anything from 0 - 90%

With SD WinHider you may show, hide and manage any window or system tray icon apperance, control windows transperency, set or change windows icons, titles and so on.
Software allows to free your desktop space for more windows, change windows attributes to fit specific use, hide not required or rarely used tray icons.

SmallAndHandy Desktop Enhancer is an innovative Desktop add-in designed to make your work more comfortable and productive. Minimize windows to tray, make them semi-transparent, hide applications quickly by hotkey, edit list of folders that appears on the left side of the Open and Save dialogs in most applications, make windows fullscreen and remove caption of maximized windows, set applications always on top and more!

Auto Window Manager automatically manages any window you specify.It can set application windows to automatically maximize (minimize,normal,minimize to tray,stay on top)every time they start.The rule of applications auto start could be customed based on your choice.

Adds several menu items to standard window system menu.The commands are:Minimize programs to system tray,keep window stay on top,Set windows transparency,align window,resize window.

TransDesktop can make the characters on the Desktop transparent and decrease the influence of the characters on the Desktop.So it can make the Desktop become more beautiful.
This software has following features:
1.Need a small disk space;
2.Convenience to use;
3.Support "Active Desktop".

Glass Window 2 is a Freeware Software that allows you to apply a transparency effect to any window/program such as Taskbar, instant messengers, DOS Window, Calculator, etc. in Windows XP / 2000 / 2003 / VISTA, control the level of transparency up to 30 levels and eliminate it at any time with just a single "click, dragging & drop". Integration with msn/Live Messenger (Now you can automate transparency of the chat windows conversation)

Lucid will add automatic transparency effects to any window. Adding a window is as simple as dragging an icon over it. Once a window is added to Lucid's list it will automatically switch between the user defined minimum and maxium transparency. Lucid uses the window's class name for identification, so it is easy to add all windows from an application by dragging the mouse over any of its windows. Lucid can be enabled and disabled quickly.

Topmost Clock is a transparent desktop clock, which runs on top of all other windows. It may have a digital or analog clock face of various colors, sizes and shapes. It has flexible settings, which allow customizing the clock so that it could be easily seen in any environment, but wouldn't irritate you or overlap with important interface elements.

Phantom is a program that allows the user to send text to any Windows application by typing a key word into that application. The key word will get replaced by any text that had previously been setup by the user in Phantom. The user can create Key Words as needed, enabling the creation of a fully customized "dictionary" of keywords that can be used in virtually any application running under Windows! Simple macros are also supported.

Hide Window Hotkey is a utility which allows you to hide the windows,and programs which are running on your screen.It will instantly hide or close all (or some) programs through Mouse Hotkey or Keyboard Hotkey.

Resize your programs automatically every time they start,such as maximize,minimize,normal,minimize to tray.Set application windows transparency.Reorder the windows on taskbar based on your choice.Show window property of application.

TweakWindow is a handy window enhancement utility with a wealth of options. You can set your own transparency options, hide, minimize, roll up, place a window on top of all others, make it a "ghost" or even change a window's icon/title. All this can be done via hot keys, through a window's system menu or by adding appropriate buttons to a window itself. No one will be able to see what windows you have opened. Try it FREE. See how cool it is!

Create irregular shaped forms easily based on the forms picture property.
Add the control to the form and set the picture property then select which colour to become transparent. This control does the rest.
You can even specify that the window can be dragged around the screen when the user clicks on any part of it.
Also contains methods to refresh the transparency and pop up a system menu.
ActiveX control for VB6.

* Intelligent control resizing and repositioning for VB 6 - Enter simple commands in Tag properties to describe how controls should resize and reposition.
* Form size, position and state restore - Enable full size, position and window state memory for your forms.
* Splitter control and MDI side panels - Nestable splitter panes which use the RXResizer to resize child controls.
* Shaped forms - Shape forms based on their Picture property.

Small compact,fast win32 DLL library which will help you to get transparent windows,resolution change, serial communication, desktop control,safe mode and debuger detection,shut down,reboot,logoff,detect left,right SHFT,CTRL,ALT key, turn on/off CAPS/NUM lock,make system sounds, protect window,hdd serial,model,power control, windows effect. Over 100 functions in only 40 KB file for C/C++,VB,XBASE++,Delphi.

Phase is a program that allows the user to send text to any Windows application with a few key strokes. Also make an application transparent, allways on top, resize, and much more with a few key strokes that invoke very simple scripts. The user can create scripts or simple text inserts as needed, enabling the creation of a fully customized "dictionary" of text or scripts that can be evoked in virtually any application running under Windows!

You will take full control over the system. You will know what process are there and you will control them. Task manager will be part of your application in very easy way. You will get information you need and you can change them. Why you need this? You application will be in better environment, you will make it better. Nice function names, easy parameters and easy return values. What else you will need?

Still wasting your time while browsing through the millions of folders when trying to attach in Outlook a file that was saved with Photoshop?! This program will save your time by handling the same documents with different programs. It extends the functionality of standard Windows and Microsoft Office Open and Save File dialogs by adding lists of favorite folders, recently visited folders and recently opened or saved files into the dialogs.

You sow this effect in many applications, and now you can have transparent windows under your control.