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Glass2k is a small little program developed by Chime Softwares that can make almost any window transparent. It’s very tiny, takes up very little system resources and moreover doesn’t need installation.

Here are some of it’s features :

• Set transparency level for individual windows or programs.
• Remember each window or program’s transparency settings.
• Load on startup.
• Make taskbar transparent.
• Beep on glassification.
• Keep windows on top
• Sits in system tray.

And all this at just 55 KB !

Installation
The program is written in VB6 and hence needs VB6 Runtime Files. If you get a ‘Runtime DLL/OCX File error’, you’ll have to download and install the VB6 Runtime Files. To Uninstall Glass2k, just close the application from the system tray and then delete the file.

Glass2k Settings

How to use Glass2k ?
Once the program is running and the icon is shown in the system-tray, you can press the following key combinations:

Glass2k In System Tray

• Control + Shift + 9 : Least transparency
• Control + Shift + 8 : A little more transparency
• Control + Shift + . : …
• Control + Shift + . : …
• Control + Shift + 2 : Very high transparency
• Control + Shift + 1 : Maximum transparency
• Control + Shift + 0 : No transparency / Solid

You can also right-click on any window and select the transparency values from the Glass2k Transparency-popup menu.

Glass2k In Action

The only thing that I don’t like about this software is that, when the option ‘Auto-Load Glass2k every time Windows starts’ is selected, whenever the application starts during start-up, a splash screen appears. But it’s not a minus point. Anyways, it’s a great app to make windows transparent easily.
Note : Glass2k is no longer under development.

Download Glass2k (55 KB)