Window

Minimize - Minimizes the currently-running hooked program to the Taskbar.

Restore - Restores a minimized hooked program back to a window.

Close - Closes the currently-running hooked program.

Process

Pause - Tries to pause the program by lowering each thread priority to the minimum.

Resume - Restore thread priorities.

Kill - Kills the last process activated by the DxWnd interface. Very useful for getting rid of games that have gone crazy because of DxWnd and refuse to terminate themselves.

Desktop taskbar

Hide - Hides the desktop taskbar while running a hooked application.

Show - Shows the desktop taskbar while running a hooked application.

Desktop color depth

On recent platforms, low desktop color depths still work but are no longer supported. This menu lets you ask the system to set the current color depth to 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits per pixel. Some color/resolution combinations may not be supported.

Recover screen mode

Restores the video mode that DxWnd detected at startup. This is useful for recovering from game crashes or other conditions that can change the desktop resolution or color depth.

Recover system colors

Recover system colors: some (typically old) programs may try to set the system colors (that is colors for window titles, borders, background panels and so forth) to custom values by using the SetSysColor call. In case this action is not disabled by the LOCKSYSCOLORS flag or recovered at game termination, this menu command brings the system colors back to the values left when DxWnd was last started.

Recover gamma ramp

Recover gamma ramp: some programs may alter the screen gamma ramp by using the GDI SetdeviceGammaRamp or D3D SetGammaRamp calls. In case this action is not disabled by the DISABLEGAMMARAMP flag, this menu command brings the gamma ramp curve back to the values left when DxWnd was last started.

Gamma control

See Gamma control.

Clear Compatibility flags

DxWnd sometimes works better if the operating system isn't attempting to run a game in any compatibility mode. This command deactivates all compatibility modes by erasing the relevant registry keys.