SD WinHider

SD WinHider helps users quickly hide and restore windows and icons from the system tray.

The overall GUI is as simple as it gets. Users are presented with a list of applications that run in the system tray, together with their icons. Only four buttons allow the user to manage the tray icons, access further settings, hide the tool, and exit the program.

Users can tweak the listed icons via a set of features that drop down when they right-click on each running program. Among that list users can find switch commands, window, and title controls, as well as transparency and window details. Each of them enables the tool to tweak small details about windows and applications in the tray bar.

Interesting is the feature that allows users to control the window transparency mode. It can be set to either stay on top or become transparent only for the mouse, while the user can add additional parameters in the preset drop-down menu.

Although the user is offered the ability to change window icons, there are no actual buttons or available commands that allow that, so that could be a small faulty mechanic.

The app isn't too rich when it comes to configuration settings. Most of the program's behaviour users can set is to hide active windows with the mouse, force SD WinHider to use its own tray icon, and have it start at Windows startup. It also offers a set of hotkeys, but it didn't seem to us that they really work.

SD WinHider is a program built for older days when Window task switcher wasn't entirely popular and shuffling between programs in the tray bar needed some limited expertise. However, the amount of customization and flexibility the program offers is quite remarkable. Although it's a bit clunky for nowadays, SD WinHider still has an interesting design.

The software sales and support are discontinued. Please use the following registration code for software activation: PUBLICWH-73506C3B-54717601-11BFC74E-2B8B9777-B91BD99F-F88798A0