Top 15 Ghost-It Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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. ...

1. HideWin

HideWin HideWin sits in the system tray and enables you to hide any top-level window with its popup tray menu or an ALT+letter hotkey that it assigns automatically. It appears to be abandonware, but it is only 13KB and still works.......

2. PowerMenu

PowerMenu PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Priority, Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.......

3. DM2

DM2 DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating iconsĀ® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, make them......

4. WinDock

WinDock WinDock is a window manager ideal for large, or multi-monitor setups.Features:-Easy and intuitive drag-and-drop action to simplify moving and resizing Windows. -Highly customizable docking rules that specify how you want your windows to behave.-Multiple rule profiles/layouts that can be created and easily switched between.......

5. WindowTabs

WindowTabs Tabbing is an essential feature of modern web browsers. WindowTabs brings the productivity of tabbed window management to all of your desktop applications.WindowTabs runs in the background and attaches a tab to each of your application windows. Drag one tab onto another and create a tabbed group. By organizing your......

6. WinSplit Revolution

WinSplit Revolution WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate.......

7. allSnap

allSnap allSnap is a small system tray app that makes all top level windows automatically align like they do in programs such as Winamp or Photoshop.Note: only works up to Windows 7 at this time (and it is in beta).......

8. Airytec Switch Off

Airytec Switch Off Switch Off is a lightweight, easy-to-use, tray-based system utility that can automatically shutdown, suspend or hibernate your system. The user-friendly, intuitive interface is designed to seamlessly integrate into Windows and provide quick access to all operations through the system tray icon. Includes a vast array of automation and scheduling options,......

9. eXtra Buttons

eXtra Buttons 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. There are three options for minimizing windows, you can......

10. PortAL

PortAL PortAL is very light portable software launcher which is based on hotkeys, menus and system tray icons.All of PortAL configuration is based on a single XML file which contains the list and the organisation of applications.......

11. gDesklets

gDesklets gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.You can populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors, news tickers... whatever you can imagine... Virtually anything is possible and may even be available some......

12. TrayIt!

TrayIt! TrayIt! - minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!......

13. USB Raptor

USB Raptor Lock and unlock your computer using USB flash drives as keys.USB Raptor can lock the system once a specific USB drive is removed from the computer and unlock when the drive is plugged in again to any USB port.The utility checks constantly the USB drives for the presence of a......

14. Sleep Preventer

Sleep Preventer Prevents your computer from going to sleep, hibernate, dim the display or start the screensaver. Application runs in the system tray when closed. New in version v1.3: -Parameter support. v1.2: Option to let display fall asleep. v1.1: Sleep timer.......

15. MyDefrag

MyDefrag MyDefrag (previously JkDefrag) is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks,......