If you’d rather now right-click everything, you can instead use numbers to customize your transparency. The first button has to be a right-click, but you can select what other buttons to press down when bringing the window up. “Transparency Popup” lets you set a shortcut to make the settings window appear. When Glass2k loads up, you’ll find a few options available to you. You can set it to automatically run on Windows start-up if you find it particularly useful. Glass2K doesn’t require installation simply download the 55 kb executable and open it to start it up. If you’re not a fan of installing old software on your PC, don’t worry. And yet, despite its age, it still works perfectly on a Windows 10 machine. In the FAQ, you can read the saddening news that this project won’t, in fact, be developed for Windows 95 or 98. The system requirements demand that your computer has a 400 Mhz CPU, 64 MB of RAM, and an 8MB graphics card.
The moment you load the page, you’re assaulted with broken Flash panels and a huge red banner declaring that development stopped a long time ago. We’re not going to lie to you Glass2k is an ancient piece of software.
Let’s explore how to make transparent windows and where each tool shines.
Fortunately, there are third-party tools that can help us achieve this goal. Windows Aero has added a few nice effects to desktop windows over the years, but even to this day, there’s no official way to make a window transparent.
