Add Transparency to your windows

Glass 2k is a little freeware application for Windows 2000 and Xp which makes it easy to add a transparency effect to any window on your system. A great feature of Glass 2k is that it is able to remember the transparency settings that you set in a previous session. The default keyboard shortcut to add transparency is CTRL + SHIFT + a key between 1 and 0 with 1 being transparent and 0 not. Click on the image below to load a bigger image see some effects that I enabled on my desktop.

Glass 2k has to be loaded and places an icon in the system tray. If you intend to use it all the time you should enable the setting to load Glass 2k at windows startup. The keyboard shortcuts can be changed to other keyboard combinations. Alternatively you can opt to add a Transparency Popup to the right mouse button which could be combined with a key as well.

Pressing alt and the right mouse button would open a slider that let you define the transparency level. Glass 2k can also set the transparency level of the task bar.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday January 25, 2007 -
Tags:freeware, Software, transparent windows, transparenty, Windows

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1. Gatic says:

   January 25, 2007 at 11:22 am

   This progrem came with the ‘Vista Transformation Pack’ (I forgot, was that talked about on Ghacks or not?), and it was cool for a while, but it was a resource hog, and I didn’t really like the transparent effect. It is cool if you want to show off, but it is not really practical for day-to-day use. At least that is how I felt.

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2. Thinker says:

   January 25, 2007 at 2:08 pm

   Yeah, Gatic you right. I used other program to make windows look tranparent and it’s good to show frieds, but not for everyday use. The only thing I prefer are xp-styles.

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