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I ran into a need for this a few days ago. It surprised me that windows can be added... but not deleted. Without this I can't see using groups on any serious project.

The case was only including Windows on a certain monitor, in which the bottom needed to be activated. The script would then move that window to the main monitor requiring it to be removed from the group. I had to recommend calling WinGet to get a list of all windows and filter them out from there; it was ugly.

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To be honest I don't see the point in groups when you can just use an array and a loop around each command that needs to work with groups. It's just one of those language features that are only useful in very special cases and add bloat otherwise.

perhaps window "groups" could just be reimplemented as objects, that way they can be changed by the script directly.

A group would just be an array of matching window texts.

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That would not be feasible since window groups must be thread-safe. They are accessed by the keyboard/mouse hook thread and main thread simultaneously. This is also the reason GroupRemove or similar hasn't been implemented yet. Aside from that, objects are slow to access and window groups are not just arrays of text; ahk_class, ahk_id, etc. are pre-parsed when GroupAdd is called.