Question

Is there a way to get access to a window handle in windows using WSH, or WMI or similar? I just want to flag a window as always-on-top. Ideally I'd use windows script host for this.

(Should also be tagged as WSH).

Regards,

Answer 1

To grab it with WSH, you can use the COM DLL found in this CodeProject article. Using this, you can then grab a window handle like so:

Set obj = CreateObject("APIWrapperCOM.APIWrapper")
winHandle = obj.FindWindow("test.txt - Notepad")

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This is also very easy in PowerShell.

example:

(Get-Process powershell).MainWindowHandle

this grab's the window handle of the powershell process.

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Although if your main goal is to make a window topmost, there are many programs for this such as DeskPins:

Answer 2

I just want to flag a window as always-on-top.

have a look at Eusing's Auto Window Manager. not only can you automatically keep all windows you specify always on top but you can also apply transparency effects from 0% (fully transparent) to 100% (solid).

Auto Window Manager is freeware.