Top 15 HideWin Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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.

1. DM2

DM2 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 iconsĀ® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, make them......

2. Ghost-It

Ghost-It Adjust the transparency of your active and inactive windows, taskbar, and desktop with this small application, which suffers from a minor performance glitch. Ghost-It places an icon on your system tray, with options to independently configure the transparency levels of your active window and inactive windows. It comes with a......

3. eXtra Buttons

eXtra Buttons 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. There are three options for minimizing windows, you can......

4. Clicky Gone

Clicky Gone 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.There is no need to close your......

5. PowerMenu

PowerMenu PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Priority, Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.......

6. WinDock

WinDock WinDock is a window manager ideal for large, or multi-monitor setups.Features:-Easy and intuitive drag-and-drop action to simplify moving and resizing Windows. -Highly customizable docking rules that specify how you want your windows to behave.-Multiple rule profiles/layouts that can be created and easily switched between.......

7. WinSplit Revolution

WinSplit Revolution WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate.......

8. WindowTabs

WindowTabs Tabbing is an essential feature of modern web browsers. WindowTabs brings the productivity of tabbed window management to all of your desktop applications.WindowTabs runs in the background and attaches a tab to each of your application windows. Drag one tab onto another and create a tabbed group. By organizing your......

9. Actual Window Manager

Actual Window Manager Actual Window Manager is 13 tools in 1. You can add new buttons to any windows title bar, add transparency effect to any window, minimize any window to tray or to any edge of the desktop, automatically close annoying windows and much more.......

10. AeroSnap

AeroSnap AeroSnap offers the snap feature of Windows 7 on Windows XP and Vista. It is a simple application that allows you to resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just dragndrop.Simple drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top......

11. reSizer

reSizer reSizer is a system utility that enables keyboard shortcuts to focus, move, resize and change other window properties in a fast and intuitive way without even touching the mouse.Features:Keyboard shortcuts for moving and resizing active windows.Change the opacity and always-on-top properties.Instant window placement to fit specific areas on the screen.Faster-switching......

12. altdrag

altdrag AltDrag allows you to move and resize windows much easier. When you have it running you can simply hold down the Alt key and then use your mouse to drag any window, and it doesn't matter where in the window you click. This is especially useful in netbooks, with respect......

13. PortAL

PortAL PortAL is very light portable software launcher which is based on hotkeys, menus and system tray icons.All of PortAL configuration is based on a single XML file which contains the list and the organisation of applications.......

14. Screenlets

Screenlets Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless.The goal of the Screenlets base-classes is to simplify the creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related......

15. Floating Clock

Floating Clock Floating-Clock - Floating (Charms) Clock for Windows 10Feature: - MultiScreen Support- HotCorner- Alt+C Shortcut- Multilingual- Realtime Update......