If you want to open, close, minimize and maximize windows in an animated way, to watch windows wobble when you move them across your desktop, to focus on the active window by darkening inactive ones, or to enhance windows management (transparency, size, roll-up) with right-click options, then WindowFX is what you need.

Skilled in the use of shortcuts is the sign of someone changing from rookie to superior, i.e. use fewer actions to achieve the same purpose. Open++ (AKA: OpenXX, Open Plus Plus) is a context menu shell extension application which is used to add custom commands to right-click menu, builds up a list of common tools to simplify the routine, has the same effect with FileMenu Tools.