Sometimes it may be necessary for you to hide running programs from the desktop and from the taskbar. NSC WinVisible is a free application for Windows that can hide and un-hide running programs just with a keyboard hotkey.

NSC WinVisible is very simple to use. Download and install it (required .NET Framework 2). Then run the program, it’ll list all running programs; select desired programs that you want to hide.

Use the hotkey Shift + Alt + H for hide (you can define your own keys) and use Shift + Alt + S to un-hide the programs.

NSC WinVisible (400Kb) can be downloaded at source.