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Hide Taskbar is a lightweight software application design to fulfil a single goal: to help you automatically hide the taskbar with the aid of hotkeys.

The “Auto hide” feature supported by Windows enables you to automatically conceal the taskbar and make it appear only when you take your mouse pointer down to the bottom part of the desktop. The program’s purpose is to help you hide only the taskbar, so the Start Button remains visible.

Since this is a portable program, it is important to mention that it doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.

You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you need to conceal the taskbar on the breeze, without having to go through installation steps.

This unobtrusive tool runs quietly in the system tray, so it doesn’t interfere with your work. You can set up the dedicated parameters by performing a right-click operation on the utility’s icon from the system tray.

Hide Taskbar gives you the possibility to hide the taskbar by pressing the “Control” and “Escape” keys simultaneously. On the downside, you cannot reassign the hotkeys, so you are stuck with the preset options.

The application lets you start or pause the script, as well as enable or disable the hotkeys. Since it doesn’t require much computer knowledge to set up the dedicated parameters, even rookies can master the entire process with minimal effort.

During our testing we have noticed that Hide Taskbar carries out a task pretty quickly and without errors. As it would be expected from such a small utility, it remains light on system resources, so it doesn’t hamper computer performance, nor interfere with other programs’ functionality.

To sum things up, Hide Taskbar offers a simple yet efficient software solution when it comes to helping you hide the taskbar with the aid of preset hotkeys.