Hide Taskbar in Windows 7 with a hotkey

By Windows Club| April 16th, 2010. Filed under: Downloads. Tags: Customize, Taskbar, TWC App

We are pleased to release the Hide Taskbar. While you can always use the ‘Auto hide’ feature to hide the taskbar and make it appear only when you take your mouse pointer down to the bottom of the desktop, Hide Taskbar lets you hide only the taskbar, and not the Start Button, with a click.

hide taskbar windows7 Hide Taskbar in Windows 7 with a hotkey

Simply download and run the app. Use hotkeys Ctrl+Esc to hide or un-hide the taskbar.

And why would you require such a program? The reason could be well, you love a clean desktop and don’t want even a taskbar to mar your wallpaper or maybe you are working on something and you want to suddenly hide all the other minimized windows or well it could be simply because you think it looks cool to hide and un-hide the taskbar. You may also find this app of interest if you use a dock.

This app does not hide the taskbar automatically on running it, but allows you to choose, using the hotkeys when to hide and un-hide! Moreover, Hide Taskbar leaves a very low memory footprint.

To have it run on every start-up, place its shortcut in the folder located at C:\Users\User-name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

And what gave us the idea to develop this portable freeware app? Simply because someone at TWC Forums put in request.

Hide Taskbar v 1.0 has been developed by Ritesh Kawadkar for Windows Club. Tested on Windows 7. Should work on Windows Vista too!

Need an app? Try putting up a request at TWC Forums! If you want to give feedback about Hide Taskbar at TWCF here.

Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com & WinVistaClub.com.