how to hide sound recorder in windows 7

Question

I want to record sound on a Windows 7 computer using software called Sound recorder.

My question Is there any way to hide it

even i did that : Open windows Task Manager (Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and do a right click on the Sound Recorder task name and then select Minimize!

still not hidden

Thanks any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

EDIT: forget what I wrote before. After some more investigation I found out that Soundrecorder natively supports this.

Either create a shortcut or batchfile or run directly from the commandline and specify the file and duration and it will silently run without window. It will be visible in the taskmanager under processes for that user but the old solution can even hide that upto a certain degree.

In the shortcut write the following:

soundrecorder /FILE <filename> /DURATION <hh:mm:ss>

for example:

soundrecorder /FILE c:\temp\output.wav /DURATION 0:0:10

Here's a step by step instruction on to creating something that will start sound recorder when windows starts.

1. Press the start orb to open the start menu.
2. Press All Programs to show all programs.
3. Scroll down to where it says Startup.
4. Right click the item Startup and select open

5. Rightclick on an empty area.
6. From the popup menu, go to the menu New, then select Shortcut

7. copy the text I've written above for the shortcut and paste it in the location field.
8. Change the duration time to your liking.

8. Press Next
9. Press Finish

And you're done. Do note that this will overwrite the wave file each time this is started. It can be changed so that everytime its run it will create a new file, but that will quickly create large files on the computer.

To output to a random file, you can set the file to c:\temp\output_%random%%random%.wav or perhaps even better, do this: c:\temp\output_%date%_%random%.wav

The new like will look like this:

soundrecorder /FILE c:\temp\output_%date%_%random%.wav /DURATION 0:0:10

---[ old solution ]------

Start the program as a different user without desktop interaction will completely hide it from windows. In the task manager you can only see it if you choose "show processes from all users".

In order to do this, create a 2nd account on the computer if it doesn't have at least 2 accounts, then use the runas /user:[username] /savecred "%SystemRoot%\system32\SoundRecorder.exe /file c:\output.wav /duration 1:00:00"

The first time you have to enter a password, but then it will store the password and a next time this password is used. You can remove this from the Credential Manager at a later stage if you desire so.

It will then record to c:\output.wav for a duration of 1 hour.

Answer 2

Create a shortcut of the Sound Recorder. then do a right click on the shortcut and change its icon and set the run field on Minimized. Now, when you double click on the shortcut, you can see just the shape of your selected icon in task bar.

Answer 3

Reference Taskbar Hide - hide windows program 1.8

• Hide windows program (applications) or /Show/Close //

  Using Taskbar Hide you can hide any running application window. All you need to do is to select the application in the Taskbar Hide list and click Hide icon or click mouse right button to popup the menu and select hide item for the change to take effect. Taskbar Hide is also able to hide/show/close the program windows quickly through pressing a hotkey.

• Hide/Show icons from the system tray /

  You can hide some of the less used icons from the system tray. The operation is the same as to Hide/Show application windows. Now this function supports windows me/2000/xp/vista/7.

• Modify application windows order on taskbar

  You can arrange the windows on taskbar according to your preference. Select the application in the Taskbar Hide list and use Up and Down arrows to reorder the application windows. This feature becomes useful when you want to put related application windows together.

• Stay on top window

  You can select Always on top (topmost) or Normal (Non-topmost). The former places the selected window above all non-topmost windows, and this window will maintains its topmost position even when it is deactivated. The latter places the selected window above all other non-topmost windows but below all topmost windows.

• Minimize to tray

  You can minimize any running application window to the system tray instead of an icon on your taskbar. You can bring the application window back to normal by using Show, or double click left mouse button on the icons or click right mouse button from the menu.

• Hide taskbar

  You can select to hide taskbar or Hide/Show any of the following: taskbar, start button, task window, system tray, and time clock.

• Window Properties

  You can find out more information of the selected window with the Window Properties dialog box. Such as window handle, class name, process id, thread id, window style and exstyle.

• Maximize all windows

  You can use Taskbar Hide to maximize all windows or only IE windows so that they cover the entire screen. Also you can minimize all windows to taskbar.

Taskbar Hide is a freeware product, this means that you can download and use it for free.