Free to start. Pay once to go Pro.

Yes — gohide is a modern boss key (panic button): one hotkey instantly hides the windows, taskbar buttons and tray icons you choose, and another restores them exactly where they were. Unlike classic boss-key tools it also hides system-tray icons and keeps working on the latest Windows 11.

Those move windows out of the way; they don't hide them. A minimized app keeps its taskbar button. A window on another virtual desktop is one Task View away and still has its tray icon in the corner. All of them keep making sound, and Win+D lasts until the next click. gohide removes the window, the taskbar button and the tray icon together, can mute or pause the app, and puts everything back exactly where it was with one hotkey.

Everyday focus and privacy on your own PC: clear distracting apps while you work, keep personal windows off-screen while screen-sharing or presenting, tidy a cluttered taskbar and notification area, or pause a background app to save CPU. gohide only hides your own windows on your own machine — it doesn't monitor anything, collect data, or run in the background watching you.

gohide does not inject into the game, does not read or write game memory and does not modify any game file — it uses ordinary Windows window calls and standard system calls, the same class of action as minimizing a window or pressing Alt+Tab. Two things to keep in mind: don't use suspend-on-hide during online play, because a frozen process stops answering the server and will eventually drop the connection (for competitive titles, check the game's own terms); and anti-cheat-protected processes refuse outside access by design, so their tray icon may not be hideable — gohide tells you plainly when it could not hide one instead of pretending it worked. If in doubt, use mute and window hiding and leave suspend off.

Yes, exclusive fullscreen included. A game in exclusive fullscreen owns the display and its resolution, so gohide first makes it hand the display back — the same way Alt+Tab does — confirms the desktop is at its normal resolution again, and only then hides the window. A small number of games never release exclusive fullscreen when they lose focus; hide one of those and the desktop keeps the game's resolution until you bring it back. Switching that game to borderless windowed mode gives an identical result.

It stays hidden. With “Keep an app hidden when it opens a new window” (Settings → General — free, and on by default), a window a hidden app opens later — a new chat message, a link opened in a hidden browser, a launcher's update prompt — is hidden the moment it appears, and comes back with the rest of the app when you restore. Turn it off if you'd rather relaunch a hidden app and use its new window.

Yes. gohide only acts on your own windows on your own machine — it has no telemetry, no accounts, and never sends anything about what you do or hide. Everything it does is fully reversible: one keystroke restores every window, taskbar button and tray icon exactly where it was.

Yes, and that version is signed by Microsoft, so it installs with no browser or SmartScreen warnings and updates itself. One thing is the same as the download from this site: gohide asks for admin once at startup, which it needs to manage other apps' windows and tray icons. It's currently rated 5.0 out of 5 in the Microsoft Store.

Same features, and both are free for up to 3 apps. The Store version is signed by Microsoft, installs without security warnings and updates itself. The website version comes as an installer or a portable ZIP, for PCs without the Microsoft Store or where Store apps aren't allowed. Pro works the same way in both: buy a license key on this website — one key per PC — and activate it in either version.

No. gohide has no account, and the Free edition contacts nothing at all. Pro activates either way: paste your key in gohide and it activates online in seconds, or — on a PC with no internet — generate a signed license file on the Activate page from any other device and import it. The Pro license itself never expires: whenever the PC is online now and then, gohide refreshes it quietly in the background and you never notice. A PC that is never online can use Pro indefinitely too: about once a year — gohide reminds you a month ahead — re-import a fresh license file with the same offline steps, which takes a minute. What you hide never leaves your machine.

No. Pro is a one-time, perpetual purchase. You own that version forever and get free updates. There is no recurring charge.

Yes. gohide hides system-tray icons on the latest Windows 11, where most other window hiders simply give up — including apps running as administrator and Electron apps. Protected or anti-cheat apps have their icon tucked away rather than fully removed. With Windows 11's Smart App Control switched on, tray hiding normally keeps working; for a few apps it can block part of gohide. Windows and taskbar buttons hide either way, and everything is restored the moment you bring things back.

Windows 10 and Windows 11. One self-contained package: gohide runs natively on x64 and under emulation on ARM64, and can hide the tray icons of x64, ARM64 and x86 apps.

Usually that app is protected or anti-cheat, and gohide tucks the icon away where possible instead of removing it. If Windows showed “Part of this app has been blocked”, it's Windows 11's Smart App Control blocking part of gohide, which affects the tray icons of a few apps. Turn Smart App Control off in Windows Security (App & browser control → Smart App Control settings) and try again; you can switch it back on later.

Yes. Click Hidden on the toolbar, or choose “Hidden right now…” from the tray menu. It lists every window gohide is currently holding out of sight, with the title it had and whether a managed app or a dynamic rule is holding it. Managed apps can be shown straight from the list.

One license activates one PC at a time, and it's yours to move: switching to a new PC takes a minute on the Manage devices page, with no need to contact us. Reinstalling Windows on the same PC? Just activate again. Need Pro on two PCs at once? Buy a second license with the same email — every key stays linked to it, and you can recover them all anytime.

Yes, Pro is priced in US dollars. Depending on where you live, sales tax or VAT may be added at checkout — our payment provider acts as the merchant of record, so it calculates and remits the tax and issues your receipt. You'll see the final total before you pay.

Yes. gohide Pro comes with a 3-day money-back guarantee — if it's not right for you, email support within 3 days of purchase for a full refund. We also offer a free edition with no time limit, so you can confirm gohide works on your PC before buying Pro. If you bought Pro inside the Microsoft Store version before it moved to this website, you paid Microsoft, not us. Microsoft treats add-ons as non-refundable unless the law where you live says otherwise; any refund request goes to Microsoft (account.microsoft.com → Order history).