Ghost-It AlternativesWindow Managers and other similar apps like Ghost-It

Ghost-It is described as 'Adjust the transparency of your active and inactive windows, taskbar, and desktop with this small application, which suffers from a minor performance glitch. Ghost-It places an icon on your system tray, with options to independently configure the transparency levels of your' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to Ghost-It for Windows. The best Ghost-It alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ghost-It are TopMenu, Moo0 WindowMenuPlus, Glass2k and xNeat Windows Manager.

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  1. SmartSystemMenu icon
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    SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:

    44 SmartSystemMenu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Windows alternative to Ghost-It.

    • SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Ghost-It.

    • SmartSystemMenu is Free and Open SourceGhost-It is Free and Proprietary
  2. TopMenu icon
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    TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Moo0 WindowMenuPlus lets you have extra useful menus in every windows "system window menu". Its the menu that you can access through right-clicking on any windows title bar or taskbar button. This tool can add extra menus there such as "Keep on Top"...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Glass2k icon
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    Small little program that allows Windows 2000/XP users to make any window transparent. Right-click on any window or press the keyboard shortcuts (Control + Shift + [0-9]) to make any window transparent. Its that simple.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    xNeat is a windows enhancement utility. With the free version you can change any windows transparency, hide it, make it always on top, send it to tray, change the process/thread priority, Shuffle the taskbar etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Crystal XP lets you adjust the transparency of open windows, but don't expect anything awe-inspiring. Crystal XP's comprehensive interface is reminiscent of Windows and offers its configurations in English and Dutch.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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