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Every boss key ever written assumes your hands are on the keyboard. They often aren't — you're scrolling, you're in a browser, you're holding a mouse and nothing else. Hunting for Ctrl+Alt+H in that moment is exactly the half-second that gives you away.

gohide can fire the same "hide everything" action from the mouse: shove the pointer into a screen corner, or press a side button. No key combination to remember, no visible reach for the keyboard.

Mouse triggers are a Pro feature.

What a hot corner is

A hot corner is a few pixels in the very corner of your screen. Push the pointer there and hold it for a moment, and gohide hides every app it manages — windows, taskbar buttons and tray icons — exactly as if you had pressed the hide-all hotkey.

The gesture is natural because a mouse cannot travel past a screen edge. You don't have to aim: throw the pointer up and to the right as hard as you like and it stops in the corner.

Setting it up

1. Open Settings → Mouse triggers.
2. Tick Hide all when the mouse hits a screen corner.
3. Choose which corner. gohide confirms which corner just went live so a trigger you forgot about never surprises you.

The corner you pick matters, because Windows already owns some of them:

| Corner | What Windows uses it for | | --- | --- | | Top-right | Nothing on the desktop — the default, and the safest | | Top-left | Close/back buttons in many maximized windows | | Bottom-right | "Show desktop" — a click there minimizes everything | | Bottom-left | The Start button on Windows 11 |

Top-right is the default for that reason. If you use a corner Windows also uses, you keep both behaviours — gohide doesn't take the corner away from Windows, it only watches it.

It won't fire twice

Two rules keep a hot corner from becoming a nuisance:

• A short dwell. Merely crossing the corner on the way somewhere else does nothing; the pointer has to stay there for a moment.
• Hysteresis. After it fires once, it will not fire again until the pointer has clearly left the corner. Parking the mouse in the corner — which people do — triggers one hide, not a hundred.

Mouse buttons

Under the same section you can assign a mouse button instead of (or as well as) a corner:

• Side button 1 / 2 — the back/forward buttons on most mice. These are the safe choice.
• Middle button — works, but think first: a middle click is also "open link in new tab" and "close tab", so every middle click anywhere would hide your apps.

The button keeps its normal job. gohide watches for it and hides your apps, but it does not swallow the click, so back still means back.

Multiple monitors

Corners are the four outer corners of your whole desktop, not of each screen. The corners where two monitors meet are ambiguous — the pointer passes straight through them onto the next screen — so gohide does not use them.

Pairs well with the privacy cover

A mouse trigger gets your windows down fast, but it leaves the desktop showing. Turn on the privacy cover and the same gesture also drops a full-screen image over the desktop, or brings a normal-looking app to the front as a cover story.

If you'd rather lock the machine outright, gohide has a lock-screen hotkey too — that one is free.

Free vs Pro

Hiding windows, taskbar buttons and tray icons with hotkeys is free for up to 5 apps — download gohide. Mouse and hot-corner triggers, the privacy cover, process suspend, unlimited apps and dynamic selection are part of gohide Pro — a one-time purchase, no subscription. See pricing.