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Icon Constructor converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TGA and TIFF formats into Windows icons. You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop, in applications and much more. It supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha channel; now you can create semi-transparent XP icons easily. This robust program works like the Swiss Army knife of icon creation!

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)

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.

SmallAndHandy Desktop Enhancer is an innovative Desktop add-in designed to make your work more comfortable and productive. Minimize windows to tray, make them semi-transparent, hide applications quickly by hotkey, edit list of folders that appears on the left side of the Open and Save dialogs in most applications, make windows fullscreen and remove caption of maximized windows, set applications always on top and more!

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.

Allows character based apps (DOS-Windows-Unix-Linux) to print to ANY Windows printer, including USB, network printers, faxmodems and PDF writers. It can also capture LPT out and redirect the jobs, even if a printer is phisically connected to the port.
Once configured, it will allows you to preview printing, include logos and background images, send the jobs via fax, use special fonts, colorize the text, export in PDF format and much more.

BoostXP is a comprehensive and easy-to-use Windows utility that lets you fine-tune Windows and Internet Explorer and makes your computer run faster. Whether you want to tweak your Windows registry, clean up your hard drive, erase tracks, or increase your multimedia and game performance, BoostXP's integrated suite of programs can get your system running at peak performance levels.

The image editor fully supports ICO, CUR, BMP, reads PNG, JPG, JPEG files. Features:Create multi-format icons/cursors from existing images in one-click; Convert images with transparency from Photoshop, or Paint Shop into Windows XP icon/cursor or 32-bit bitmap with alpha channel; View, edit images using editing tools, filters, effects; Capture any image from the desktop screen; Search on the computer and extract resources from EXE, DLL, OCX file.

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.

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%

WindowGhost provides cool transparent window and menu effects. Arrange your windows more efficiently with WindowGhost! With this desktop enhancement, windows become transparent (ghost-looking) when they are moved or resized, allowing you to partially "see through" to other windows in the background. Makes organizing windows more efficient and allows you to better control the window real estate on your monitor.

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.

Phase is a program that allows the user to send text to any Windows application with a few key strokes. Also make an application transparent, allways on top, resize, and much more with a few key strokes that invoke very simple scripts. The user can create scripts or simple text inserts as needed, enabling the creation of a fully customized "dictionary" of text or scripts that can be evoked in virtually any application running under Windows!

Phantom is a program that allows the user to send text to any Windows application by typing a key word into that application. The key word will get replaced by any text that had previously been setup by the user in Phantom. The user can create Key Words as needed, enabling the creation of a fully customized "dictionary" of keywords that can be used in virtually any application running under Windows! Simple macros are also supported.