GhostWin Alternatives
GhostWin is described as 'Allows you to make any window slightly or completely transparent, and automatically adjusts the transparency level of windows that are being moved or sized so you can see what's underneath them ahead of time' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are nine alternatives to GhostWin for Windows and File Explorer. The best GhostWin alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GhostWin are MenuTools, eXtra Buttons, Chameleon Window Manager and TopMenu.
- Free • Proprietary
- 43 SmartSystemMenu alternatives
SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
Top SmartSystemMenu Features
MenuTools is a simple program that adds options for task priority, window transparency, and Always On Top to open dialog windows.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Country of Origin
Brazil
Platforms
- Windows
MenuTools Features
eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more.
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eXtra Buttons Features
Chameleon Window Manager will allow you to control the windows of your programs using customizable buttons added to the title bars of the windows (Always on Top, Minimize to Tray, Minimize to Caption, Specify Transparency, Position window at left/right of screen).
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Country of Origin
Russia
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
Chameleon Window Manager Features
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"...
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Moo0 WindowMenuPlus Features
- 7 Glass2k alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Glass2k Features
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.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
xNeat Windows Manager Features
- 5 Ghost-It alternatives
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...
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
DiscontinuedThe official website is no longer available. Last version, v1.04, released on April 09, 2002, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.
Ghost-It Features