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PowerMenu - added options for running programs

Power MenuPowerMenu is a small utility that adds a few options to the system menu on any application. This is the menu you get when you click on the icon on the top left of the application's window, or if you right-click on the system's entry in the taskbar. What options do you get? Well, for me the most interesting one is the ability to set the priority of the running program without having to go through the task manager. Other options include setting window transparencies, setting a window to be Always on Top, and the ability to minimize programs to the system tray.

All of these functions have been done in other apps, but this is a nice small little utility that has them all together. If you're looking for a way to do all or some of these things, PowerMenu just might be the way to go. Note that it doesn't appear to have been actively developed since 2002, so any problems you discover with it likely won't be getting fixed any time soon. So far I've had no troubles with it, but you never know, right?

Note that many of the download sites listed don't work, but I was able to use the Veridicus site (which is the domain that the page is hosted under) with no problems.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source

Vitrite: Lightweight window transparency for Windows

VitriteThere's a lot of apps out there that will let you control your windows' levels of transparency in, er, Windows. Vitrite's snappy tagline is "useless window transparency since 2002," and it does two things: Lets you change a window's transparency by holding Ctrl and pressing the number keys, and toggle the "Always on Top" mode with another keypress. What's it have to recommend it over other such apps? Well, not a lot, really, but it is lightweight (a 43kb download) and open source, which are two things we're big fans of here at Download Squad.

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