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Run and Hide v0.5

What use is it?

Run&Hide will open and hide an application.
When Run&Hide opens your application, it can Start/Hide/Minimise/Maximise/Show/Close and will get a handy (mousey?) tray-icon.

Why?

Because not every application needs to be seen all the time.

How does it work?

Method One:

Open RunHide.exe, then locate your application in the file-select dialogue, then type some of the titlebar-text (normally seen in the titlebar of your application) into the subsequent dialogue-box.

Method Two:

Make a shortcut pointing to RunHide and append some command-line options like so:

[path]RunHide.exe [yourApplication[ titlebar-text[ action]]]

Examples:

...C:\Progra~1\Tools\WinSys\Run\RunHide.exe C:\Progra~1\Tools\Comms\BITWARE\BFRECV.EXE hide
..."C:\Program Files\Tools\WinSys\Run\RunHide.exe" "C:\Program Files\Tools\Desktop\IconEx.exe" "Icon" hide

Also

Run&Hide also uses a settings file (below) which lives in the same folder as Runhide.exe. It collects pairs of data (titlebar-text and path\app.exe), which are later checked before asking the user. It's not bullet-proof, but helps cut keystrokes. You can edit the RunnHide.ini file, and probably should from time-to-time. Just clear all the data under [history] to start afresh.

RunHide.ini

[options]
TimeToOpen=8         ; This is how long to wait for app to get up and running.
TimeSinceOpen=800000 ; This is how long to wait after boot-up, very useful when using RunHide at startup.

[history]
1=Volume Control|C:\Windows\Sndvol32.exe
2=Volume Control|C:\Windows\Sndvol32.exe
3=PPPshar|C:\Progra~1\Tools\Net\PppShare\PPPshar.exe
4=PPPshar|C:\Progra~1\Tools\Net\PPP\PPPshar.exe
5=Play|RunDLL32.EXE c:\Windows\System\amovie.ocx,RunDll /play /close
6=Run|RunDLL32.EXE c:\Windows\System\amovie.ocx`, /play /close
7=Receive|C:\Progra~1\Tools\Comms\BITWARE\BFRECV.EXE
8=Wireless|C:\Progra~1\RALINK\RT2500~1\Instal~1\WIN9X\RaConf~1.exe
9=Pad|*.txt
10=Notepad|C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE

Download RunHide.zip (180kb)