Hide Windows

Hide Windows facilitates a simple method for hiding any active windows from the desktop, including taskbar and systray. This easy-to-use tool supports global keyboard shortcuts for accessing the program and for toggling the visibility of any opened application.

Attention-demanding installation

During the setup operation, it offers to download third-party software products that it doesn't actually need to work properly, as well as to make some potentially unwanted modifications to your web browsers. If you don't rush through the wizard, you can decline all offers to make a clean setup.
Once launched, Hide Windows runs from the systray and lists all currently running processes in its main window, showing the title and status of each window: visible or hidden. The status bar displays the number of total processes.

Set hotkeys to toggle window visibility

It's possible to use a quick search function to track down a particular process, hide and show any selected item from the list, refresh the list, display system processes, enable stealth mode, as well as ask the utility to run at every Windows startup until further notice.
Moreover, you can set up global hotkeys for making the program visible and invisible, as well as for any active processes (up to five keyboard shortcuts at a time).

Evaluation and conclusion

It worked well in our evaluation, without triggering the OS to hang, crash or prompt error messages. As we expected, it had minimal impact on the computer's performance, since it needed low CPU and RAM to function normally.
To sum it up, Hide Windows provides you with a fast and simple solution for toggling the visibility of your running processes. Thanks to its intuitive UI and options, it caters to all types of users, even those less experienced with this kind of software.