고스트 모드: 녹화에서 gohide 숨기기

Ghost Mode is the one place where gohide works the other way round. The apps in your list are really hidden: off the screen, the taskbar and the tray, for everyone including you. gohide itself is different, because you need to see it to use it. With Ghost Mode on, every gohide window stays on your screen as usual but is left out of screen recordings, livestreams, screenshots and shared screens. You see it; the camera doesn't.

That is what lets you open gohide in the middle of a stream or a meeting, hide something or bring it back, without your audience watching you do it, or reading the list of apps you keep hidden.

Ghost Mode is part of gohide Pro and needs Windows 10 version 2004 or later.

Turn it on

1. Open Settings → Ghost Mode.
2. Tick Turn on Ghost Mode. The page says In effect once Windows is applying it, and the main window shows a Ghost Mode badge for as long as it stays on.
3. Click Take a viewer's screenshot to check. gohide captures your screen the way recording software does and shows you the picture. gohide shouldn't be in it.

To switch it off and on quickly (say, for a tutorial where you want viewers to see gohide), use Ghost Mode in the tray menu.

What it covers

Every window gohide opens: the main window, Settings, every dialog, the tray menu, dropdowns and tooltips. Each of these is a separate window as far as Windows is concerned, and gohide excludes each one before it first appears, so even a menu that is open for half a second doesn't flash into a 60 fps recording.

The one exception is the privacy cover. It is meant to be seen, so it always shows up in captures.

Two more things are drawn by Windows rather than by gohide, so Ghost Mode handles them another way:

• The taskbar button. By default, gohide leaves the taskbar while Ghost Mode is on, because its button there would give it away. You can still reach gohide with Alt+Tab, its tray icon or its hotkeys.
• Notifications. gohide's balloon notifications are not shown while Ghost Mode is on. You can turn that option off if you'd rather see them.

What can't see gohide

Anything that records or shares the screen through Windows' capture interfaces:

• screen recording and live streaming, such as OBS Display Capture;
• screen sharing in meeting apps;
• screenshots and snipping tools.

What it can't stop

• A phone or camera pointed at the screen.
• Capture cards and other external hardware, which record the display signal itself.
• gohide's tray icon. Windows draws it, so it can appear in the recording. In Settings → Global hotkeys you can hide it together with gohide's window.
• The rare program that bypasses Windows' capture interfaces.
• On Windows 10 before version 2004, Windows can't do this (the window would turn into a black box), so the option is unavailable there.

And the apps you hide?

Those don't need Ghost Mode. gohide takes them off the screen entirely, so no recording can see them. See Hide windows while streaming and Hide apps while screen sharing.

Ghost Mode is only for gohide's own windows. Windows lets a program set this flag on its own windows only, so keeping another program visible to you but invisible to the stream is a different kind of tool.

Free vs Pro

Ghost Mode is in gohide Pro, along with mouse triggers, the privacy cover, auto-hide rules and the rest: one-time purchase, free updates, no subscription. The Take a viewer's screenshot button works in the free edition too, so you can see what your stream shows before you decide. See pricing.