CE Desktop

CE Desktop is a small-sized utility designed to help you protect your desktop while viewing sensitive photos, reading personal messages, or performing any other similar activity that requires privacy.

It supplies you with a semi-transparent window with a dark grey tint, which contains only a small visible area. The entire panel can be dragged to any part of the screen using the mouse pointer to hide the monitor while viewing the contents of the visible area.

There are two editions available for users, a setup kit and a portable package. They can be separately used for 32- and 64-bit Windows, depending on which architecture type you have.

The significant difference between these two editions is that the portable one can be saved to a removable storage unit and immediately deployed on any machine. However, you have to download and install .NET Framework unless you already have it, regardless of the edition you're using.

As previously mentioned, the semi-transparent window has a dark tint, and it can be dragged to any part of the desktop (e.g. open window) using the mouse pointer.

Unfortunately, this is where the functionality of CE Desktop ends. It doesn't have any buttons, menus or other kinds of controls. On top of that, it's very inconvenient to use due to its fixed dimension, since the window cannot be resized. The means that you're confined to a horizontal bar with a 1018px width and 60px height for viewing visible contents.

Taking into account the lack of any options, it's difficult to pinpoint the practicality of CE Desktop since it's not possible to control the size of the entire window or, at least the visible area, let alone adjust the level of opacity or change the transparency color.