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HideWin

HideWin sits in the system tray and enables you to hide any top-level window with its popup tray...

Free
Windows
Discontinued

HideWin 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.

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Discontinued desktop-enhancement hide-all-windows hide-window minimize-to-tray window-manager

HideWin was added by kafene in Oct 2012 and the latest update was made in Dec 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Oct 2019. It's possible to update the information on HideWin or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

HideWin is discontinued

The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.0, released on June 13th, 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.

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