HideWin Alternatives
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. The best alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HideWin are RBTray, Actual Window Manager, 4t Tray Minimizer and eXtra Buttons.
SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:
Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
Discontinued
Last update is from 2015 but the project has been forked: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray
Total Windows® Facelift!.
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:
- Free • Proprietary
- 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.
Discontinued
Social networks not updated in years.
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.
Discontinued
Last version is from 2007
Clicky Gone allows you to hide your selected windows from view, this includes the taskbar button associated with the application. This utility particularly helps with protecting your privacy by hiding things like your browser with banking details up and someone walks in on you.
TrayIt! - minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 4.6.5.5, released on June 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
HMW is a free program to hide away the Windows on your desktop. With HMW you can set any program Window as hidden, while the program itself will run silently in the background. Additionally all the Hotkeys used can be customized to your needs.
