ゲームウィンドウを隠す

When someone walks up behind you mid-game, Alt+Tab is not enough. Alt+Tab only pushes the game to the back: the taskbar still shows it, the Steam or Epic icon is still sitting in the corner, the sound is still playing and the fans are still spinning. One glance and you are caught.

gohide's boss key takes all four away at once — the game window, its taskbar button, the launcher's tray icon and the sound. Press it again and everything comes back exactly as it was.

One hotkey, four things gone

1. The game window — including games in exclusive fullscreen. gohide makes the game hand the display mode back before hiding it, so your desktop is not left stuck at the game's resolution (see below).
2. The taskbar button — it goes with the window, in the same step.
3. The launcher's tray icon — the Steam, Epic or WeGame icon in the corner is the thing that gives you away, and it is what most window-hiding tools cannot touch.
4. The sound — mute-on-hide, and it is in the free edition.

Game platforms: tick the row that has a window

Steam and WeGame share a quirk: the window you see and the tray icon in the corner belong to two different programs. Measured on Windows 11: Steam's window belongs to steamwebhelper.exe while its tray icon belongs to steam.exe; WeGame's window is browser.exe against a wegame.exe icon.

gohide recognises those as one application and shows them as a single row. Tick the row called "Steam" or "WeGame" and one hotkey takes the window and the tray icon together — no guessing which process is which, and it only costs one slot.

The game itself is usually a separate program, listed on its own row. Tick it too if you want it managed; the free edition manages up to 5 programs at once, which is typically launcher + game + browser.

Full-screen games

Supported, exclusive fullscreen included. A game in exclusive fullscreen owns the display and its resolution. Hiding such a window naively leaves the DESKTOP stuck at the game's resolution — icons rearranged, everything oversized, more conspicuous than not hiding at all. gohide first makes the game release the display the same way Alt+Tab does, confirms the desktop is back to normal, and only then hides the window.

Honest caveat: a small number of games never drop exclusive fullscreen when they lose focus (they don't follow Microsoft's own guidance for game developers). Hide one of those and the desktop keeps the game's resolution until you bring it back or quit it. If you hit that, switch the game to borderless windowed mode — the result is identical.

Actually stopping the game: suspend on hide (Pro)

Hidden is not stopped. The game keeps using CPU and GPU, the fans keep spinning, and in an online game your character is still standing there. Pro can suspend the process while it is hidden — every thread frozen at the OS level, CPU to zero, silent — and it resumes at the exact frame when you bring it back. See pause any game with a hotkey.

The free edition has mute on hide instead: the game keeps running but makes no sound, which is enough for the thing that usually gives you away.

Will anti-cheat ban me?

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 minimising a window or pressing Alt+Tab.

That said:

• Don't suspend during online play. A frozen process stops answering the server and will eventually drop the connection; for competitive titles, check the game's own terms. Single-player games and launchers don't care.
• Anti-cheat-protected game processes refuse outside access by design, so their tray icon (if they have one) may not be hideable — gohide tells you plainly that it could not hide it rather than pretending it worked.
• If in doubt, use mute and window hiding and leave suspend off.

Setting it up

1. Download gohide — the free edition needs no account.
2. Tick your game, and the row for your launcher (Steam, Epic, WeGame…).
3. Assign a hide/show hotkey (say Ctrl+Alt+H), or use one key to hide everything at once.
4. Optional: in that program's options, turn on mute while hidden (free) or suspend while hidden (Pro).
5. For something even less obvious, Pro adds hot-corner triggers — throw the pointer into a screen corner without taking your hand off the mouse.

The free edition is free forever and manages up to 5 programs; Pro is a one-time purchase, never a subscription. See pricing.