Hide_Plus

While you can minimize almost any window to the Taskbar, and sometimes send them to the system tray, it is not normally possible to hide them from your desktop completely and keep them running only in the background.

Hide_Plus is a lightweight application that can come to your aid. It enables you to hide any program window, which will continue to run normally in the background, and then reveal them again whenever they are needed.

As far as installing and configuring the software goes, things could hardly be simpler. The setup process is remarkably straightforward, and there are no settings to tinker with once you have installed the application.

You can find Hide_Plus in the system tray, and you just need to right-click the icon whenever you wish to hide or reveal a window. To make things easier in the future, you can even have it launch with the OS automatically.

Every active window will have an entry in the system tray menu, and the hidden ones will be separated from the rest to make it easier to find them. Once a window has been hidden, you will only be able to access it again by revealing it from the tray menu.

Working with Hide_Plus is very simple, as you can hide or reveal windows with just a couple of mouse clicks. You can use the Shift+Ctrl key combination to perform this action, but it would have been great if this hotkey was customizable.

Hide_Plus does its job well, enabling you to make any application window invisible while letting it run in the background. It lacks a classic GUI, as it is controlled entirely from a system tray menu, and it is very easy to use.