HideWin

Window management might seem like an easy task, but if multiple ones forcefully integrate themselves it quickly becomes a pain. Some can’t even be minimized, or stay on top of everything else until a specific task is done. In this regard, HideWin comes with the means to hide them from plain sight, without affecting functionality.

Just to provide the flexibility you need, the application skips you the effort of going through a setup process, and can thus be used on other computers besides your own directly from a thumb drive. Moreover, runtime does not affect registry entries, so you don’t have to worry about affecting the stability of the target PC.

The main window can seem a little confusing at first, especially because there’s no list of active windows. However, the application includes an incredibly useful component, namely a separate list of active windows. It comes in handy because adding targets isn’t done by dropping a crosshair over the target window, but rather writing details like title and class, which can be tricky to get just right.

The target window doesn’t immediately hide, so you manually have to start the process when done. These are not sent to the taskbar, or the tray area, but taken away completely from the screen. You can only bring them back by stopping the hide process.

All window instances on the list are saved even after closing the application. Moreover, you can combine this feature with the options to automatically run with Windows, or to start hiding when programs start so they’re never visible if not required on your desktop. Frequency is specified in milliseconds to check for items on the list, and hide them if possible.

HideWin is a neat way to hide adds and banners, or specific windows which keep showing up on screen and affect functionality if closed. Stability of the PC, or the target application itself is not affected, with the possibility to have all items on the list hidden as soon as they’re available, and right from Windows boot.