Glass2k 0.9.2 Beta

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (13 votes)

BETA (November 24, 2002)

Windows 2000/2003/XP / Freeware / 12,690 downloads

Glass2k allows Windows 2000/XP users to make any/every window transparent/semi-transparent, like Linux or Mac OS X windows. The latest version remembers each window's transparency settings, allows you to keep any window on top, loads on Windows startup, beeps when glassify'ng a window, supports mouse and keyboard shortcuts, and allows you to customize these shortcuts.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    snowshifter

    Reviewing 0.9.2 Beta (Jun 4, 2009)

    Just browsing and found this. I got this on a covermount CD about 2004. It's the only free transparency tool that always works. The only time I ever Had a problem was with a Yahoo! widget. The only tweak that is on every system I've purchased, built, sorted for friends. Brilliant!

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    debonair

    Reviewing 0.9.2 Beta (May 8, 2009)

    Still works in Windows 7. Thank goodness the default right click can actually be changed. (I just noticed) I was worried about being stuck with right-click only to change settings.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    stealthx32

    Reviewing 0.9.2 Beta (Feb 14, 2002)

    Great stuff...but it is a bit slow. ixxologic, I have AIM+, which is an AOL Instant Messenger add on, that allows transparency, also has some other neat features. I run that on a pII 300 MHz IBM 600E laptop, with some graphics card that doesn't have any decent 3D capability. On the Task Manager in Win2k, it registers 0% cpu usage for that program, and also, I notice no slow down at all. So it's definitely this implementation that is slow. So no, you don't need a fast computer at all to have decent transparency. Also, what does anti-aliasing have anything to do with it? All those bells and whistles you mention are for 3D rendering, not 2D.

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    terf

    Reviewing 0.9.2 Beta (Feb 14, 2002)

    the download links to the old version, doesn't it?

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    ixxologic

    Reviewing 0.9.2 Beta (Feb 14, 2002)

    excyzemoiz mr mrp-

    the fact that its written in VB may make it slower than it would be in lets say.. C.. BUT.. man.. what age are you from?..
    You're using a TNT2.. tho great in its days.. it does NOT have hardware accelleration of Transparencies and definetly NOT antialiasing them too like MODERN GEFORE CARDS DO!.. get a GF3 or something and THEN start complain if its still slow..

    Its not at all slow.. i can shuffle 52 transparent windows like a deck of cards in Vegas man and its NOT SLOW..

    a bit buggy yeah. but if you wanna use transparent windows.. get a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaster gfxcard!

    I/O

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