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Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

This script might save your @$$ someday... It hides all open windows. It maintains a list of windows that should not be hidden (work apps).

Also a list of apps is kept that should be launched when Boss comes, in case you were not working at all, not even having a work window in the background!

All this at the press of a single hotkey. Press the hotkey again to show those hidden apps.

Customize the work apps in the script and the hotkeys. As the script doesn't show an icon in tray so to exit it press the hotkey for it.

Default hotkeys:
BossKey: Win+z
Exit Script: Ctrl+Win+z

ParanoidX · Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 149 Location: Australia

HAHAHAHAA!!!!

heres a word of advice... prevention is better than cure..LOL!!!

PhiLho · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

Woo, Rajat, bad boy! Very Happy

I see you took fast loading applications in the Run section... Better than an Office one, sure.
If I didn't read too fast, perhaps you should also restore the hid* windows in case they were minimized (or even hidden...).

That remind me...
One day, I received a large file (can't remember the format, somethink like video, PowerPoint or Flash, whatever) showing a Word window were somebody typed slowly a text. The purpose (for fun, not for real!) was to make believe you actually worked while you slept with open eyes and hands lightly lying on the keyboard...
I found that clumsy, because of the size of the file, and because the chosen document was in a language you may not use for work (English), and was probably unrelated to your work.
So, for fun, I wrote a MS Word macro to take a real work document, and slowly copy it in an empty one... Much smaller and more realistic.
I should dig it out someday.

Guest

it can hide all using windows by #z but cann't restore them by ^#z which made me feel very anxious.
BUT WHY?

PhiLho · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

#^z exits the application without restoring the windows.
#z is a toggle key: hide then show.
Note: using a multiple desktop applet like VirtuaWin is probably a better (and more useful!) solution.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Jason as a guest · Guest

Here is a ahk alternative i really like.
Ive used it just for that reason many times.
lol

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic6182.html

Guest · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject:

I just found this script and I love it!

One bug that I've found and I'm not real sure how to fix it:

If my mouse is hovering over something when I hit #z to toggle it on/off, a 'burn in' effect happens with the tooltip text. It is permanently shaded on the screen until I exit the script (and even then sometimes it wouldn't go away)

Don't have the first idea how to fix this, so I was wondering if anyone could recreate the error and possibly track down why this is happening.

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

Guest,
i know exactly what you're saying. i've seen that at places where AHK had nothing to do, so its most probably a windows bug. and as this script doesn't use tooltip at all, its a system displayed one and not ahk generated.

i know its annoying! Rolling Eyes

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yellowsix · Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 6

LOL
I made something like this before to use on school.
Lots of my buddies made use of it, but it was kinda hard to do.
I also used an "ignore list".
I called the script WinSneak. Very Happy

Thanks for the script.
I'm really going to make use of it.

Keep up the good work.

Yellowsix

(EDIT)

I just saw it doesn't have the start menu (BaseBar) and the program manager in the ignore list.
Of course everyone could add it by himself, but it might be handy to put it in the standard code.

seclinix - offline · Guest

hahahaha oh sh*t it is nice script rajat!!!!!!! i attend a buisiness and admin course and my admin normally takes a stroll around the room so i use script to mask the internet explorer window but there was 1 problem one time i clicked a link and activated the hotkey and all these popups come up and it would not hide them Crying or Very sad

so i was exposed for that... lol it was very funny because the admin had Radmin and was watching me type the hotkey in and there on he knew what the hotkey was so he told all the staff and the next day i was hiding windows and all of a sudden my tutor activated the hotkey on my keyboard and caught me playing Unreal Tournament 4 and downloading stuff Crying or Very sad

so i was in abit of trouble...

anyway my question is, is there anyway of getting me out of this trouble? Confused

Grumpy · Guest