GlassToasts

GlassToasts is a lightweight piece of software designed to help you enhance the appearance of Windows XP by replacing the old-fashioned balloon notifications with glassy style toasters.

It is important to note that the application is designed to load itself automatically into the Windows explorer function, so you need to make sure that you are running it as administrator or you have elevated rights.

Unfortunately, because of the several third party hooks, the application can sometimes crash explorer.exe. Functionality-wise, the tool is as simple as it looks and you can start or stop it at any moment by accessing the dedicated functions from the Settings window.

At the same time, you can run the application from command line, if you find the approach more convenient. In case you decide to run it via commands, then you can take advantage of extra functions, such as auto that allows you to start the application directly without displaying any dialog, for instance.

A further noteworthy command is the kill function that enables you to stop all previously started sessions of the program and unload them from memory. If you prefer to shut down a procedure but maintain the application active in the memory, then you can consider using the stop command.