eXtraButtons

A simple, 1Mb application that adds up to nine extra buttons to the top right of your Windows windows. Options, on a per-window basis, include minimizing to the taskbar tray or a common tray, rolling up and down to a bar at the top of the screen, pinning to the top, varying transparency, pushing to the back and minimizing to a box in the corner of the screen. All these are Windows options not normally available, so there are no unexpected surprises, it's just the clever application of existing Windows routines. And that means the buttons will automatically match whatever your current theme is, too. If you use a lot of windows simultaneously it's worth a look, as it's free, though unless you're a power user it has limited value but still looks really cool. Install it anyway, and pretend you really have a use for it. Nobody's going to know.