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%. Similar to the new Aero Glass feature of Windows Vista

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-11-06
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: Free

TransWin is a tiny yet powerful tool to make any window on your desktop to be transparent. You can set any window to be transparent or not, you even can set the Start Menu and the task bar to be transparent. It supports to set the transparency value for all or any of the transparent window. Supports to add the program path to force all the windows created by aprogram to be transparent,or add filter to make all matched windows to be transparent.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-03-08
• Size: 34 Kb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Password protect your workstation or server with Transparent Screen Lock while viewing programs that are running. Any attempts to access the system will display a message requesting the password. Prevent access via CRTL-ALT-DEL. Includes a log file to track activity and failed login attempts. Save log file locally or at network location. Use quick-launch icon to run, or configure like a screensaver to be enabled at a preset time interval.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-05-27
• Size: 548 Kb
• Cost: 24.95 $

Finally a complete suite of Windows XP Desktop enhancement, XP Visual Tools is loaded with all you need to tweak your Windows XP Desktop. Now you can do anything you want, from changing transparency level of XP Start Menu and XP Taskbar to easy swapping between different Windows XP LogonUI or Windows XP Wallpapers and applying Windows XP Skins (XP Themes) to old programs.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-04-17
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 9.85 $

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

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-09-12
• Size: 27 Kb
• Cost: 10.00 $

This tiny utility allows you adjusting transparency of currently active window and seeing other windows open at your desktop (so called alpha blending). Use Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+F12 keys to setup alpha blending and make your work with multiple files more convenient.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-06-07
• Size: 535 Kb
• Cost: Free

Don't hesitate to make changes at your desktop, use Actual Transparent Window and create your own visual style! Combine subtle tones in different ways and achieve stunning results. Even professional artists will envy your success! Use transparency not only for aesthetically pleasing effect, but for increasing speed of your work too. Make any window semi-transparent and you will observe the contents of another behind. Easy, simple, and effective!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional
• Release: 2006-10-10
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Password protect your workstation or server with Transparent Screen Lock PRO while viewing programs that are running. Prevent system access via CRTL-ALT-DEL. Log file tracks failed logon attempts, and can initiate shutdown/logoff. Save log file locally, to network or to Event Log. Use quick-launch icon or run as screensaver. Option to grant system access to Administrators and/or other authenticated users without closing current session.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-11-01
• Size: 968 Kb
• Cost: 49.95 $

Transparent desktop clock with fully customizable shape, alarms, and atomic time.It may have a digital or analog clock face of various colors, sizes and shapes - you may even set individual parameters for each application you run,so that the clock were clearly visible in any environment.Synchronizing time with atomic clock servers.Versatile alarms can be set to run once at specified time,or periodically.Screensaver,time zones,tooltip,zodiac signs

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French, German
• Release: 2002-12-16
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.00 $

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.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2002-09-21
• Size: 339 Kb
• Cost: Free

IconUtils is a complete icon and cursor solution. Make smooth semi-transparent icons for Windows XP. Edit icons and cursors in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. Create static and animated cursors. Arrange icons and cursors into libraries. Convert icons and cursors to ICO, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, CUR, ANI, PSD, WMF and WBMP formats and vice versa. Customize the icons used to display various folders to be able to distinguish them at a glance.

• License:
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 59.95 $

This software helps you to manage your windows settings. You may set transparency of any window required. You may place any window to the top of others. Moreover you may disable input for any window. This gives you opportunity to productive work with graphical and other programs using small and middle size displays.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-07-25
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 25.00 $

Password protect access to your computer, while monitoring programs that are running in the background. Perfect for system administrators, retail stores running computer demos, or any user of email, instant messaging or live stock quotes. Relax in the knowledge that your computer is secure.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-04-01
• Size: 408 Kb
• Cost: 19.95 $

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)

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
• Release: 2007-06-12
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: Free

EasyWallpaper is the ultimate wallpaper management tool. Inter alia, EasyWallpaper has the following features: change Windows wallpaper in specific intervals, display desktop calendar, make screensaver from your own photos, make full size slide show of your favorite images, make desktop icon labels transparent, organize images in categories, find new wallpapers on hard disk or internet, unique starfield wallpaper functionality, preview and more.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German
• Release: 2003-01-27
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Try IconUtils! It's a new smoothly organized icon processing machine, which helps you to work with graphic files of various formats, create and edit your own icons (including Windows Vista icons) with color depths up to 32-bit True Color, print icon images, convert icons to files and more. This functional package consists of 4 specialized tools: IconLover, Any to Icon, Icon to Any and Aha View.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-04
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 59.95 $

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.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-05-11
• Size: 883 Kb
• Cost: Free

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.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-03-17
• Size: 498 Kb
• Cost: 47.00 $

Open source skinnable visual components package for Delphi and C++Builder. Default skins: Win Classic, WinXP, Opera Standard, skins based on popular Opera skins and others. Components features: full alpha-channel support, translucent controls, MMX-optimized, changing effects on events (mouse over, mouse out, focus, unfocus etc), JPEG&PNG support, soft drawing of geometric figures (rectangles, circles, etc).

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Russian
• Release: 2006-04-15
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 10.00 $

Cool Desk is a virtual desktop manager. Ever wish to have several screens on your computer? Cool Desk creates up to 9 virtual desktops and allows you to have different windows in each of them. The desktop manager window has a skinnable interface and allows you to switch from one desktop to another with a single mouse click.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Release: 2003-01-03
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 24.95 $