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Titlebar Add-Ons: Add New Functions to Windows

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Supported Platforms: Windows 2000 & XP
Requirements: 800 Mhz or faster processor

Ill admit, it’s not fashionable to say, but I love Windows. Sure there are security problems and the occasional blue screen of death, but on the whole it’s a great tool and a huge part of my life (considering I spend about 10 hours in front of it daily). However, there’s always room for improvement as evidenced by our vast collection of utilities.This month’s utility takes the most essential part of Windows, the actual application window itself, and adds some very handy features. Sure minimize, maximize, and close are crucial, but what about having other buttons to make your computing life a little easier? Titlebar Add-Ons adds four new buttons to your application windows. The new buttons allow you to (in order of appearance):

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Send a window to the system tray. If you want to keep a particular window running, but you don’t want to see it in the taskbar, this button sends the window to the system tray and appears as an icon.

Make a window transparent. By clicking on this button the window instantly becomes transparent. This can be helpful if you need to see some data under the window or if you’d like to view your wallpaper at the same time.

Pin a window to the top. This keeps the window on top of other windows on your desktop, ensuring that your important windows are not = hidden by other applications.

Roll up a window. You may roll up a window so that only the title bar is showing. This will add more space to your display without having to close running applications.

Using Titlebar Add-Ons

As soon as you run Titlebar Add-Ons you’ll see four new buttons on your windows that look like this . These buttons will appear on all windows except palette and tool windows (those with smaller title bars) and any non-standard or skinned windows. The first button in the list is the “Send window to the system tray” button . This button will immediately send the window to your tray. For example, let’s say you’re working on a Word document but you don’t want to close it and you don’t want it filling your taskbar with another button. Clicking the “Send window to the system tray” button will put the Word doc in the tray like this .

When you want to start working on the file again, simply click on the Word icon and the window will reappear on your desktop and will be removed from the tray.

The transparency button is the next button and looks like a ghost . When you click this button the window will become 20% transparent. This is the default transparency level which can be adjusted in the Settings dialog. You can also right-click the button and select a transparency level from the context menu. Making a window transparent can be helpful if you need to see some data under the current window or if you’d like to view your wallpaper at the same time.

The “Pin to Top” button enables you to keep the window above all others. When a window is not pinned to the top it looks like this . When you activate it, by clicking the button, it then changes to . If you have multiple windows with “Pin to Top” active they will all appear above all other windows but the currently selected one will always be above the other pinned windows.

The final button is the “Rollup” button . This button will roll the window up and just show the title bar of the window. This can be a handy way to gain additional screen real estate. When the button is activated it looks like this . Click it again if you want the window to unroll. Sometimes you might notice that a window does not completely roll up. Some applications control the minimum window size which is what Titlebar Add-Ons sets. Titlebar Add-Ons can override this setting through the “Override default window size” checkbox in the configuration settings. The window should then roll up completely.

Settings

There are multiple settings you can adjust in Titlebar Add-Ons from the Settings dialog. To access this dialog, right-click the Titlebar Add-Ons icon () on the system tray and select Settings… A window like the one below will appear.
You can choose which buttons should appear on each window. For example, if you know that you’ll never use the “Send to tray” button you can uncheck it in the “Caption Buttons” section.

Additionally, you can set the speed of the rollup animation or decide not to animate it at all. You can also override a window’s default window size so that the rollup feature works on windows that set a minimum size.

Another useful setting is the ability to set the default transparency for windows. This enables you to simply click the transparency button rather than right-clicking on the button to select the level of transparency.

September 22, 2006 Posted by blbsnj | PC MAG | | 4 Comments