How to hide an external program's windows programmatically?

Question

I want to hide an external application, ie. not the current application. I want to give the title of the application and it will be hidden. How can I do this programmatically?

Answer 1

In general terms, you could call FindWindow to get the HWND of the window in question, then ShowWindow with SW_HIDE to hide the window.

Answer 2

You need to get a handle to the window (which you can do using FindWindow()). Then you need to call ShowWindow() and set it's shown state to hidden.

Answer 3

ShowWindow(FindWindow(NULL, "WINDOW TITLE"), SW_HIDE);