Shell Enhancer's Got Your Hotkeys and a Whole Lot More

by Lee Mathews Jul 22nd 2008

One of our beefs with Windows is that there are some pretty obvious customization options missing. Little things, but things we'd use if they were there. Fortunately, NuonSoft's Shell Enhancer packs a bunch of these features into a single 2.5MB installer.

What can it do? For starters, it allows you to "roll-up" windows (display only the title bar), make any window transparent, minimize applications to the system tray, lock them in position, and even force them remain on top.

It doesn't stop there, however. Also included is a wicked hotkey manager; we particularly like the prepacked "Google selected words." Highlight some text in any window, press ctrl + alt +g, and Internet Explorer will open with your results (you can easily rework it to use Firefox, of course). There's also a thumbnail-enhanced task switcher and a taskbar button mover (it's not click and drag, but it works).

Who doesn't want a little more functionality with a dash of eye candy for their Windows shell?

Tags: hotkey, shell, shell enhancement, ShellEnhancement, transparency

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jeffrey said 9:55AM on 7-22-2008

I still think the most important feature of ShellEnhancer is the x-style drag/drop windows (alt+left drag to move windows, alt+right drag to resize windows) - I find it so much easier to use the hotkey then find the title bar, click, drag, and then find another window corner to click and resize =]

Sridhar said 2:13PM on 7-22-2008

One can easily search the selected word in Google by pressing any of their chosen hotkey combination using AutoHotKey.

Check this out: http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/01/15/how-to-search-in-google-from-any-windows-application-easily/

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