HideWin AlternativesWindow Managers and other similar apps like HideWin
HideWin is described as 'Sits in the system tray and enables you to hide any top-level window with its popup tray menu or an ALT+letter hotkey that it assigns automatically. It appears to be abandonware, but it is only 13KB and still works' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to HideWin for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, Windows Explorer and X11 apps. The best HideWin alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HideWin are Actual Window Manager, RBTray, 4t Tray Minimizer and DM2.
HideWin alternatives are mainly Window Managers but may also be Shell Extensions or System Tweakers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of HideWin.- 46 SmartSystemMenu alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Window Manager
- Windows
SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:
- - SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Windows alternative to HideWin.
- - SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to HideWin.
SmartSystemMenu Features
- 37 Actual Window Manager alternatives
- Paid • Proprietary
- Window Manager
- Windows
Total Windows® Facelift!.
- - Actual Window Manager is the most popular commercial alternative to HideWin.
Actual Window Manager Features
- 50 RBTray alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Window Manager
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
RBTray Features
DiscontinuedLast update is from 2015 but the project has been forked: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray
- 24 4t Tray Minimizer alternatives
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions:
4t Tray Minimizer Features
- 41 DM2 alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Window Manager
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space.
DM2 Features
DiscontinuedLast version is from 2007
- 12 eXtra Buttons alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Shell Extension
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more.
eXtra Buttons Features
DiscontinuedSocial networks not updated in years.
KDocker will help you dock any application into the system tray. This means you can dock Openoffice, xmms, Firefox, Thunderbird, anything!
Just point and click. Works for all NET WM compliant window managers - that includes KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Fluxbox and many more.
- - KDocker is the most popular Linux alternative to HideWin.
KDocker Features
- 42 Ghoster alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Window Manager
- System Tweaker
- Windows
Dims all windows except the active one.
Features:
- Place a transparent image across the screen.
- Highly configurable.
- 14 PS Tray Factory alternatives
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
PS Tray Factory allows you to take a full control over icons in the system tray area of the taskbar. With PS Tray Factory you can: hide icons from system tray into menu, change the order of icons in the system tray (sort tray), restore tray icons after Explorer.
- 7 AltMove alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Window Manager
- Windows
Adds more functionality to your mouse for interacting with windows. The moving. You can move windows and controls which do not support this ability. The resizing. You can resize windows and controls which do not support this ability. The hiding and restring. .
DiscontinuedAltMove has not been updated since October 2015.
- 90 Chameleon Window Manager alternatives
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
Chameleon Window Manager will allow you to control the windows of your programs using customizable buttons added to the title bars of the windows (Always on Top, Minimize to Tray, Minimize to Caption, Specify Transparency, Position window at left/right of screen).
Chameleon Window Manager Features
- 14 Tray Control alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Tray Control - hide icons from system tray.
Tray Control Features