Hide Windows Wizard9.6

Hide Windows Wizard is a lightweight software application built specifically for helping you hide programs that run on your computer.It is able to hide your running utilities without leaving traces on the PC, so you can stealthily download videos or songs, upload media on the Internet, or perform other actions without being noticed by other users.

Straightforward layout

It sports a clean feature lineup that allows you to carry out most operations with minimum effort. As soon as you run the utility, it automatically reveals the processes that are currently running on your PC, system tray icons, and active shortcuts.

Basic settings

The tool gives you the possibility to assign hotkeys for showing or hiding the application, encrypt information by setting up passwords, as well as run the utility at Windows startup.The last function empowers you to automatically hide a list of programs defined by you as soon as you run the tool, so no one can actually notice that they are running in the background.

Quick and automatic hiding modes

Hide Windows Wizard features two hiding modes designed to help you hide items efficiently, namely Quick Hide and Auto Hide.The first mode enables you to assign hotkeys for concealing or revealing the items, specify the programs that you want to hide, conceal only specific windows (you are required to create a list with window titles), as well as hide all running utilities except for the listed ones.What’s more, you can make Hide Windows Wizard mute all sounds or bring an app’s panel to the front if it is running when you press the hotkey for concealing items. Additionally, you may export the settings to a file and import them in the future.The automatic hiding mode lets you create a list with custom programs, assign hotkeys, as well as exclude certain windows.

Virtual desktop and additional features

Hide Windows Wizard comes bundled with a bunch of tools that allow you to switch to a virtual desktop using a hotkey, lock the screen before switching to the virtual one, as well as mute all sounds.There are also several dedicated parameters built to give you a hand when it comes to hiding a user-defined list of programs when Hide Windows Wizard is running, concealing files and folders by file extensions (e.g. BMP, DOC, WMV) and folder name, as well as killing custom processes when a hotkeys is pressed.

Bottom line

All in all, Hide Windows Wizard comes bundled with a decent feature pack for helping you hide applications. Thanks to its intuitive configuration panel, it is suitable for rookies and professionals alike.