How to Record Secretly with the Hidden Screen Recorders

Speak of hidden screen recorders, two scarcely known recorders now enter users’ eyesight with their excellent ability to record in secret. These two hidden screen recorder apps help users to record Windows Teams remote meetings without notifying every participant, they help users to record Mixer live streaming without the allowance of the channel owner, the secret screen recorders also enable users to record Udemy courses without instructors’ permissions.

Let’s see the mechanisms of their operation mode and how could they help us in secret recording.

● How to Secretly Record Your Screen with Microsoft Hidden Screen Recorder?

Xbox Game Bar is built-in software in Windows 10 and also was seen as a sub-cultural community availing users to share game screenshots and highlight videos to each other. The most underestimated feature is the hidden screen recorder within it. What’s more, Game Bar provides optimal recording conditions for users to secretly record their screen.

While recording, Game Bar is hard to be noticed since it’s a real background screen recorder that’s running in the background without a system tray icon or any interfaces on the desktop. But the program is not completely invisible. You can always find it in Task Manager and your installed programs list.

1. Launch the Game Bar

Press Windows and G to call the Xbox Game Bar’s control bar.

2. Set the Game bar

The Game bar, as its name suggests, is created for game recording. So there could be a moment when you can’t use it unless you activate a certain game in the background.

This problem could be solved easily by clicking “Yes, this is a game” – an interface for you to decide whether you want to record anything other than games.

3. Start the hidden recording

Click the Record icon to start recording. At this moment, the Game Bar will run in the background and be invisible temporarily.

Now you can enjoy its secrecy in recording – No bothering interfaces, no system tray icon, and no control bar unless you call it out. Literally, no one would catch you recording.

4. Stop the recording

Press Windows and G to call up the Game bar again. Click the Stop icon to finish recording.

5. Find the recorded file

Click the gallery to check your footage. The Xbox game bar wasn’t embedded with an edit feature so there is no further workflow here.

However, some fatal deficiencies of Game Bar could be unacceptable for advanced users.

• – Game Bar doesn’t support recording in the entire desktop or custom area
• – It is not embedded with an editor
• – The Game Bar lacks annotation tools
• – Game Bar doesn’t have a scheduled recording feature

As a hidden screen recorder, Game Bar remains functional with users sitting in front of their PC screen operating. Once users are far away from the PC, it is not active at all. So at this moment, another secret screen recorder – RecMaster surpasses Game Bar by providing stable performance even when users are absent from home.

● How to Secretly Record Screen with RecMaster?

RecMaster is another hidden screen recorder with an underestimated capacity. Unlike Game Bar which records latently in the background, RecMaster records either with its interface showing up or record hiddenlly. It achieves secrecy in another way mainly through its special feature – scheduled recording.

Scheduled recording is a function mainly about “delayed recording”. Users set the timer and RecMaster automatically captures their screen once the timing is right.

This feature makes RecMaster a secret recorder to monitor users’ PC screens when they are absent from home or work. Other approaches to spy on PC could be energy-wasting, say, if users attempt to fumble traces out of browsers, applications, documents, recycle dustbin etc. The process could be annoying.

Let’s jump out to see the procedures to make a monitor of your PC by the feature Scheduled recording.

1. Choose a Recording Mode

Recording is a good way to keep once-only content alive locally for further watching. RecMaster built several recording options in to meet different recording needs – Game Mode, Full Screen, Custom Area, Webcamand Audio only. Now for the purpose of secret recording, we suggest you to leverage Full-Screen Mode to capture as much information in your desktop as possible.

2. Set Task Schedule 

Click “Task schedule” to create tasks.

Now it’s time to define the tasks’ names, set a start and end, and choose your audio source. Do make sure to turn on the Microphone Sound and System Sound to capture all the possible sounds around your PC when you are absent from home.

In terms of the format and quality of recordings, users are suggested to output MP4 video at high or original quality for better compatibility. Frame rate value doesn’t matter too much unless you are going to capturing some high-paced moments like a game.

3. Enable the task

You can enable or remove any recording task from the list. Once your task is enabled, and RecMaster is a latent background before recording, you can leave it alone to work or go to school, etc.

Ending

Xbox Game Bar and RecMaster are two desirable hidden screen recorders, they secretly record anything that happens on users’ desktops. The game bar leaves no traces in recording, it operates in the background and no interfaces or system tray icons are left in the process of recording. But as a hidden screen recorder, it lacks important features.

RecMaster’s secrecy lies in another aspect. Through the feature “Task Schedule”, RecMaster captures your desktop automatically when the time is preset. It works as if it were a monitor without being noticed. It captures system sound and microphone sound when you are absent from home. Compared with Xbox Game Bar, RecMaster delivers a more stable performance on secret recording.