Use This Application to Add Advanced Window Management Options to Your Computer
Have you ever wished that a certain window could be docked above all the others? Or that you could see through the window what was behind it? A free and open source Windows utility called MenuTools allows you to do this and more.
After installing the program, you just need to right-click on the bar at the top of any window and you will see more options. My personal favorite is the ability to make any window transparent. Maybe sometimes it’s useful, but mostly I think it’s convenient.
You can also pin any window to the top, a feature that has much more obvious utility. For example, you can pin a notepad to the top while a video is playing in full screen. This goes well with transparency – you can still see what’s going on outside the note-taking window.
And one more feature: the ability to minimize any window to the tray rather than to the taskbar. Many apps offer this feature, but with MenuTools you can apply it to any app. This is ideal if you want the app to run in the background without taking up visual space in your workflow.
There is one more feature in the menu: the ability to change the priority of an application process. It’s a feature you might otherwise only find deep in the task manager, and for good reason: fiddling with priority levels can cause instability and in most cases isn’t necessary. I strongly recommend that you do not use this feature if you do not understand what it means. However, if you want a specific application to have priority access to the CPU, there is an option.
MenuTools isn’t new: it’s been around since 2014 and was last updated in 2020. However, the developer is still answering questions on Github and it works well with Windows 11.