Hide running windows with WatchCat

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Hide running windows with WatchCat

by Brad Linder Apr 12th 2008

WatchCat is a free Windows utility that lets you hide running programs from view. It basically minimizes selected programs and removes their entries from the Windows taskbar and Alt+Tab menu. It won't close them; it won't save you any RAM, but it will clear up some screen real estate while you let a program run in the background.

At first this might not seem that useful. But ask yourself, do you really need your music player to show up in the taskbar if all it's doing is playing your MP3 collection? Wouldn't you rather have it run in the background sometimes when you have a bunch of other program windows open and littering your taskbar?

WatchCat has a few other built in goodies like system tray icons that give you quick access to shared network folders all the files saved on your desktop. There's also a timer feature which theoretically lets you set windows to automatically hide or close after a certain period of time. But when we clicked on the timer operations option, nothing happened.

[via gHacks]

Tags: hide, minimize, watchcat

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