Are there any programs that can do this?

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 by The Wired | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Are there any programs out there that can make the background of Explorer transparent?
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Chris
Reply #1 Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:56 PM
WindowBlinds can do this, though IIRC it never looked very well. For instance, it would be nice if you could specify it to be partially transparent such that it looked a little bit darker or lighter than the underlying desktop wallpaper. Eterm, or whatever its called, on Linux did this really well.

paxx
Reply #2 Tuesday, June 18, 2002 10:18 PM
And get a real nickname and we'll answer you.

paxx doesn't like people who enter invisible characters as their nickname.

Chris
Reply #3 Tuesday, June 18, 2002 10:32 PM
Heh. Yeah. You can't even click his/her profile.

The Wired
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 2:20 AM
WOW! Thats not good I just saw that! How did I get by with out getting a nickname? And paxx I'm sorry but I didn't enter any invisible characters! Well anyway I sent out some emails so I hope I can get a nickname soon. And now back to my question, I thought I remember hearing something that stardock made a long time ago I think it was called Trans Tool, That name ring a bell to anyone? Thanks for any help!

DavidK
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 2:27 AM
Here's the instructions (taken from the readme file in SETI green) for WB including where to get Trans Tool:

To make Explorer window backgrounds transparent:
In the Windowblinds configuration window on the "settings" tab click
on "advanced" and put a check in the box "Make Explorer backgrounds
semi-transparent". You also need to set your folder options to "use
Windows classic folders" from the folder options dialog. ("Tools/Folder
Options" on an explorer window's menu.)
For more color options (the default is cyan) download "TransTool"
from the tools page at http://go.to/WBStuff

The Wired
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:17 AM
Thanks David! OH and David keep up the great work on those WB skins!

BoXXi
Reply #7 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 7:17 AM
Talking about transparency.....I still have a very cool transparent notepad called "CrankPad" on my computer. Anyone remember this great little app? I wish it had been developed further, so that I could use custom colors instead of just the default ones.
Does anyone remember who made this app?

Jafo
Reply #8 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:29 AM
I went to the desert on a horse with no name.....

Jafo thinks Citizen [nobody] is a ghost....

Elfkura
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:40 AM
either that or an admin play a prank on us .

Chris
Reply #10 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:55 AM
I always envioned Craeonics as the ghost in the machine around here..

MikeB314
Reply #11 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:07 AM
Thanks to SkinBrowser, I can see that our ghost is actually called Citizen <SYNTHETIC> . Our browsers are apparently seeing this as an HTML tag and hiding it from us.

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plastic
Reply #12 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 6:29 PM
BoXXi, Crank had a page up until xoom/nbci stopped hosting, couple of months back (?). He doesn't think much of his apps these days, was wondering if there was any need even, then stopped responding... pity, an 2k/xp version would have been nice.

BoXXi
Reply #13 Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:41 PM
Thanks for the info Plastic. Can't you convince him to develop his stuff further?, I know you have some influence with developers. Maybe Teknidermy could host his apps?, don't they have that "orphan apps" section?

The Wired
Reply #14 Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:23 AM
WOW good job MikeB314 you found my name! Yup thats me SYNTHETIC, Sorry about not having a nick I'm still not sure how it happend?

paxx
Reply #15 Thursday, June 20, 2002 6:44 AM
Citizen, that's because this site strips out tags, so your nick being within tag markers is not showing. Please create a new account, but leave out the greater than and lower than signs.

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