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Ghost-It

Adjust the transparency of your active and inactive windows, taskbar, and desktop with this small... Created by Matthew T. Pandina

Free
Windows
Discontinued

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 active window and inactive windows. It comes with a fade effect option and you can decide if you'd like a warning before the transparency of the taskbar and desktop are adjusted. We like that we can define a hot-key combination for activating the window under the cursor. Once you've made those choices, pick Ghost from the menu to put this freeware to work. To end the effect, select UnGhost or UnGhost All. In our tests, however, we had difficulty accessing the elements on our toolbar once its transparency faded. Despite that issue, users who often work with multiple windows should try this free tool for easy modification of windows' visibility.... More Info »

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Portable Sits in the System Tray On top Add a feature

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Discontinued Portable desktop-enhancement hide-window system-tray-program transparency window-manager window-on-top

Ghost-It (sometimes referred to as Ghost It, GhostIt) was added by ClevelandRock in Jun 2014 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Sep 2016 There is a history of all activites on Ghost-It in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Ghost-It or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Ghost-It is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The official website is no longer available. Last version, v1.04, released on April 09, 2002, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.

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