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*A few things people use it for:*
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* **Windows ricing** — toggle the taskbar and icons on and off to match your desktop aesthetic, take clean screenshots, or switch between layouts without touching a single setting
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* **Streaming / going live** — hide your personal windows before your screen goes live, bring them back after with one key press
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* **Wallpaper Engine** — reveal your animated wallpaper without minimising or closing anything
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* **Presentations** — clean up your screen before sharing, no need to manually minimise everything
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* **Profiles** — create, edit, and delete named state snapshots; assign
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individual hotkeys.
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* **Startup** — toggle auto-start and set the login delay (0–120 s).
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* **Notifications** — master toggle and per-event checkboxes (update, hotkey
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fail, profile switch).
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* **Updater** — channel (stable/beta), check interval, manual check button.
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* **Discord** — enable/disable Rich Presence.
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* **About** — version, build target, links, "Copy debug info" button.
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== Recovery
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=== Taskbar hidden and can't reach the tray
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Open *Run* (Win+R) and type:
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[source,powershell]
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powershell -Command "Add-Type -N System.Windows.Forms; [System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation]::PrimaryMonitorSize"
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Or just press Ctrl+Alt+T — the hotkey works even without the taskbar visible.
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=== All windows hidden
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Press Ctrl+Alt+W again, or right-click the tray icon → *Toggle App Windows*.
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=== App not in tray after a crash
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Hidden windows stay hidden until the app restores them. Restarting
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HideDesktopApps will restore them automatically because the app checks state
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on startup. If that doesn't work, reboot — Windows restores all window
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visibility on logon.
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== Building from source
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[source,bash]
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# x64
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cargo build --release --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
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# ARM64 (cross-compiles from x64)
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cargo build --release --target aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
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Requires the `windows-latest` GitHub Actions runner or a Windows machine with
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Visual Studio Build Tools + the relevant MSVC target installed.
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== File layout
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HideDesktopApps/
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├── src/ Rust source
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│ ├── main.rs
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│ ├── config.rs
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│ ├── ui/ egui settings window
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│ └── ...
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├── assets/
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│ └── installer.iss Inno Setup script
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├── scoop/
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│ └── HideDesktopApps.json Scoop manifest
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├── winget/
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│ └── manifests/ WinGet manifest tree
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├── .github/workflows/ CI (ci.yml) + release (release.yml)
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├── Cargo.toml
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├── LICENSE
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├── LICENSE-COMMERCIAL
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└── README.adoc this file
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== License
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MIT for personal and open-source use. See link:LICENSE-COMMERCIAL[] for
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commercial licensing.
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* **Notificatio

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