TransWin
TransWin is a tiny yet powerful tool to help you to set any or all of the windows on your desktop to be transparent. You can set any window to be transparent or to be disabled the transparent, you even can set the Start Menu and the task bar to be transparent. ... TransWin also supports to add the program path to force all the windows created by a program to be transparent, or add the filter string to make all the windows that matched the filter string to be transparent. ... It supports to set the transparency value for all or any of the transparent window, which from 1 to 254.
http://www.easexp.com/transwin/transwin.exe - 34Kb - Download - Screenshot

Quick Shell
Quick Shell adds options to the system menu of all windows to make them always on top, transparent or collapse them to the title bar. Also, menus can be made transparent. For Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.
http://home.att.net/~kmichael/quicksh.exe - 674Kb - Download - Screenshot

Transparent Windows
Martin's Transparent Windows adds a transparency option to the system menu of all programs, making it possible to obscure any window on your desktop. People looking over your shoulder, want to use MSN descreetly in the office...
http://www.martinutils.com/transparent.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

1 Cool Menu FX Tool - Flash
An incredibly powerful and easy to use Flash menu-maker. Spice up your web-site with animated buttons, expandable menus, floating navigation and other Flash animations. You can even use any True-type font in your menu. 1 Cool Menu FX Tool features a step-by-step user interface. ... The simplest to use and most powerful Flash and Java menu-maker available: * Powerful Wizard - make whole menus in minutes * Amazing template system * Create menus in both Flash or Java * Unlimited Fonts - use any True-Type font * Powerful fill effects including gradients * Built-in menu expansion/collapse...
http://www.menu-fx.com/menu-maker-files/Menu-FX-Flash.exe - 5Mb - Download - Screenshot

1 Cool Menu FX Tool - Java
An incredibly powerful and easy to use Java menu-maker. Spice up your web-site with animated buttons, expandable menus, floating navigation and other interactive Java applets. You can even use any True-type font in your applet. 1 Cool Menu FX Tool features a step-by-step user interface. ... The simplest to use and most powerful Flash and Java menu-maker available: * Powerful Wizard - make whole menus in minutes * Amazing template system * Create menus in both Flash or Java * Unlimited Fonts - use any True-Type font * Powerful fill effects including gradients * Built-in menu...
http://www.menu-fx.com/menu-maker-files/Menu-FX-Java.exe - 5Mb - Download - Screenshot

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. ... Makes organizing windows more efficient and allows you to better control the window real estate on your monitor.
http://barefoot.swmirror.com/windowghost.exe - 588Kb - Download - Screenshot

NextSTART
NextSTART, by Winstep Software Technologies, is a powerful, skinnable, and dynamic pop-up menu that can be used as a replacement or supplement to the Windows Start Menu. NextStart also offers an incredible amount of flexibility so that the user can customize it to his needs and desires. ... Unlike many other menu programs, NextStart does NOT require you to re-enter the paths to all the programs listed on your Start Menu. ... How about transparent menus? ... In fact, thanks to NextStart's dynamic menu support, it will create as many menus as you wish based on any hard drive or directory!
http://www.winstep.net/ns3-full.zip - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot

Pocket Wallpaper
Create themes and wallpaper for PocketPC and other mobile devices. Using this studio you can crop and resize any image to fit on your PocketPC or other mobile device. For your WindowsCE devices you can create themes for your Today screen. Adjust colors for items displayed on the Today screen. ... Drop down menu even appears transparent. ... Set your image to be transparent, even select the color you want to use for the transparency effect. ... Uploads directly to any selected folder on your smartphone or PocketPC.
http://www.lincolnbeach.com/downloads/pocketwallpaper.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

HyperSnap
HyperSnap is the fastest and easiest way to take screen captures as images and capture editable text (TextSnap) from any part of Windows screen. Combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool! ... Permits capture of an entire pull-down menu or other objects that quickly disappear when any key or mouse button is pressed. ... 03: New text capture command on Capture menu: "Text from an Object under Cursor", together with optional delay for this function that can be set up on TextSnap tab of Capture...
http://www.hyperionics.com/downloads/HS6Setup.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

QuickFolders
Did you ever thought of how much time is wasted while browsing through the millions of folders when you try to attach in Outlook a file that was saved with Photoshop? This program will help you to handle the same documents with different programs. QuickFolders adds its menus into the standard... With QuickFolders you can create a list of the favotite folders that will be kept in the system menu and will be available in a one mouse click. ... QuickFolders will make Open and Save File dialogs transparent, so they will not consume screen space anymore.
http://www.bytegems.com/files/QuickFoldersSetup.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot