Search for an open window title and return details about the window.

Get-WindowTitle -WindowTitle <String> [-DisableFunctionLogging] [<CommonParameters>]

Get-WindowTitle -GetAllWindowTitles [-DisableFunctionLogging] []

Search for a window title. If window title searched for returns more than one result, then details for each window will be displayed.

Returns the following properties for each window: WindowTitle, WindowHandle, ParentProcess, ParentProcessMainWindowHandle, ParentProcessId.

Function does not work in SYSTEM context unless launched with "psexec.exe -s -i" to run it as an interactive process under the SYSTEM account.

-WindowTitle <String>

The title of the application window to search for using regex matching.

-GetAllWindowTitles [<SwitchParameter>]

Get titles for all open windows on the system.

-DisableFunctionLogging [<SwitchParameter>]

Disables logging messages to the script log file.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

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PS C:>Get-WindowTitle -WindowTitle 'Microsoft Word'

Gets details for each window that has the words "Microsoft Word" in the title.

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PS C:>Get-WindowTitle -GetAllWindowTitles

Gets details for all windows with a title.

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PS C:>Get-WindowTitle -GetAllWindowTitles | Where-Object { $_.ParentProcess -eq 'WINWORD' }

Get details for all windows belonging to Microsoft Word process with name "WINWORD".

To see the examples, type: Get-Help Get-WindowTitle -Examples

For more information, type: Get-Help Get-WindowTitle -Detailed

For technical information, type: Get-Help Get-WindowTitle -Full

For online help, type: Get-Help Get-WindowTitle -Online