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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 portable window-manager

HideWin was added by kafene in Oct 2012 and the latest update was made in Jan 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Dec 2018 There is a history of all activites on HideWin in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on HideWin or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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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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