WindowGhost
WindowGhost provides cool transparent window effects when moving or resizing windows. It allows you to "see through" windows and be able to better place windows on your desktop. WindowGhost also allows transparent menu effects. Arrange your windows more efficiently with WindowGhost! ... With this desktop enhancement, windows become transparent (ghost-looking) when they are moved or resized, allowing you to partially "see through" to other windows in the background. ... Customize your desktop and have fun with windows!
http://barefoot.swmirror.com/windowghost.exe - 588Kb - Download - Screenshot

Desktop Icon Toy
Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool that allows you to manage your windows desktop icons. Currently, there are most of similar tools, such as make desktop icon backgrounds transparent, arrange desktop icons. But none of them can animate desktop icons, add hover effects to desktop... Transparent the background of desktop icon texts. ... Change the font color and background color of desktop icon texts. ... You can also add animation effects for it. ... Use this function, you needn't care this problem again.
http://www.idesksoft.com/DesktopIconToy.exe - 395Kb - Download - Screenshot

Icon to Any
Icon to Any is a smart tool that lets you convert any icon, or cursor to an image. This image can be used as a design element on a webpage. Conversion is done via a simple wizard that restricts all your efforts to a few mouse clicks. Simply select a file, or a folder to convert, specify the... Thanks to the intuitively transparent interface, you can start using Icon to Any right out of the box without having to spend time on reading any technical documentation. ... The output image may be saved in a variety of graphic formats, including BMP, WBMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, ICO, CUR, TIFF, PSD, XPM,...
http://www.iconutils.com/icontoany/icon2any.exe - 694Kb - Download - Screenshot

Desktop Snow
Snow falls gently on your desktop as soft music plays in the background. This transparent screensaver will quickly become one of your favorites. You can use it with all your winter themes.
http://files.themesunlimited.com/files/S/desktopsnowss-43440.exe - 634Kb - Download - Screenshot

Scotts Binary Clock
Scott's Binary Clock is a clock that displays the current time in binary using a LED display. It's a little gadget or conversation piece for your desktop. It really doesn't serve much of a practical purpose, unless your goal is to display the time in a format that nobody but you can read. ... There is even a new "transparent" background that many people have been asking for! ... You can toggle the LEDs between round, square, and rectangular and you can select several different LED colors -- red, blue, amber, green, etc.
http://www.sb-software.com/binaryclock/sbbin18.exe - 695Kb - Download - Screenshot

TransDesktop
In Windows system,user can set a image as wallpaper for making Desktop more beautiful. But the characters on the Desktop are not transparent. It has their own background color. So It influence the view of the image on the Desktop. TransDesktop was right develped for the problem. ... It can make the characters on the Desktop transparent and decrease the influence of the characters on the Desktop. ... 4 are: - Add a button to choose some general colors,with it you may choose many general colors expediently; - May show a small icon in taskbar status area; - A "Restore" button may restore...
http://vip.6to23.com/zerolu/download/TransDesktop14E.zip - 56Kb - Download - Screenshot

Export Manager
The Export Manager is an AutoCAD add-on for the conversion of AutoCAD drawings into more than 75 raster and vector formats (ai, bmp, cgm, emf, eps, gif, jpg, pcd, pcl, pdf, pic, png, rib, rpl, sgi, sk, swf, svg, tga, tif, wmf ... ). With several options the graphic can be modified comfortably:... (please refer to www. ... somaxx. ... Afterwards the drawing can be exported to the Clipboard or to one of the 75 provided formats. ... A preview displays the graphic with its current settings.
http://www.somaxx.de/files/em20eng.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

Desktop Rain Screensaver
Realistic rain falls gently on your desktop as soothing music plays in the background. The rain is layered in different colors so that it will be visible on any wallpaper. This screensaver is transparent. It will quickly become one of your favorites.
http://files.themesunlimited.com/files/S/desktoprainss-86638.exe - 631Kb - Download - Screenshot

JR Screen Ruler Pro
The JR Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas, Centimeters. It also allows you to rotate and set transparent...
http://www.spadixbd.com/jruler/jrulerpro.zip - 352Kb - Download - Screenshot

Advanced Text2Gif
Advanced Text2Gif enables you to create pictures(Gif, PNG or Jpeg) from plain text. It is very useful when you want to keep the original settings of your text (e. g. particular font or size, color) and distribute it on the net, or protect your copyright text from copy/paste by visitors of your... In Advanced Text2Gif, you can custom size, background color (transparent or background picture), or even word wrap properties for picture files which give you the most freedom in the converting. ... Other features in Advanced Text2Gif include multiple setting options which enables you to...
http://www.wekasoft.com/text2gif/at2g.zip - 828Kb - Download - Screenshot