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From: hysteria on 22 Feb 2010 00:38 i was wondering if anyone knows of a way to change the opacity of windows with xp?
From: Shenan Stanley on 22 Feb 2010 00:50 hysteria wrote: > i was wondering if anyone knows of a way to change the opacity of > windows with xp? Maybe with third party applications. Not natively. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
From: Leonard Grey on 22 Feb 2010 09:38 ....and bear in mind that translucent windows suck up graphics resources. You'll need at least 256MB of memory on your graphics card and a fast clock. All for eye candy. I predict that translucent windows will be the first feature of Aero that Windows 7 users eventually turn off. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Shenan Stanley wrote: > hysteria wrote: >> i was wondering if anyone knows of a way to change the opacity of >> windows with xp? > > Maybe with third party applications. Not natively. >
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 22 Feb 2010 10:05 On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:38:23 -0500, Leonard Grey <l.grey(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > ...and bear in mind that translucent windows suck up graphics resources. > You'll need at least 256MB of memory on your graphics card and a fast > clock. All for eye candy. > > I predict that translucent windows will be the first feature of Aero > that Windows 7 users eventually turn off. I've been a Windows 7 user for almost a year now, and I still have it on. Not that I think it's a wonderful feature, but I don't dislike it and I'm not unhappy with the performance on my machine. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: Tim Meddick on 22 Feb 2010 14:42
As Mr Shenan Stanley says; not natively, in WinXP, but it *is* possible to change the opacity of any window, to any level of opacity, by downloading the very small, very powerful, free utility - NIRCMD.EXE Amongst many of it's varied functions is the ability to set the level of opacity of any window, thus : nircmd.exe win trans title "Calculator" 192 ....this command, with the parameter "192", would set the opacity of Calculator to 25% - total opacity of 100% would be "255" and you would use this parameter to bring the appearance back to normal. You can also use the parameter "0" to make the window "disappear" altogether!! Just download the zip-file by clicking on the link below - extract and copy : nircmd.exe to your "windows" or "system32" directory (or any dir that appears in your "path" variable). Then extract and read the help-file : nircmd.chm Download "nircmd.exe" from : http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.zip == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "hysteria" <adamhysteria(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:A3517606-1D44-44F5-950E-D367837AEE0A(a)microsoft.com... >i was wondering if anyone knows of a way to change the opacity of windows > with xp? > |