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This code should open four Explorer windows, each pointing to C:\, and tile them. What it does is open one window and move it around the screen.

However, if each of the Run, explorer.exe statements points to a different drive (e.g., explorer.exe C:\, explorer.exe U:\, explorer.exe V:\, explorer.exe I:\), so that each window has a different title, it works. So evidentally WinMove grabs the first window it finds that matches the title rather than the last opened window? I was assuming WinWait should set the "Last Found" window to the last-opened window, which WinMove would then operate on.

Can WinMove point to different windows in tern when all the titles and class IDs are identical?

The problem with opening 4 explorer windows all pointing to C:\ is a limitation to explorer not opening a window that already exists. There might be a switch or registry setting to change that.

I have a script that has two different examples of where it has windows identical and will take care of each one based on their window ID's.



Here is another example that I have an INI file setup where if a Window exists move it to a specified location. But I only wanted it to move it when it first opened, so that I could move it around after I openned it.



thanks,
beardboy

On the off chance that you need it, you can operate on windows that have identical titles and classes by using WinGet as in this example:

First, instead of saying, "This code should ...," I should have said, "I'd like this code to ...." I think I might have come off sounding a little judgmental of AHK. Not intended -- sorry.

Anyway, WinGet is great. Thanks, beardboy and Chris. This is the resulting code that does what I had wanted.

This one should open four explorer instances/windows. Guess they're seen as separate windows by WinSpy (?). Haven't checked it yet.