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Here is a script that illustrates my point.

The last WinActivate is supposed to Activate the other open notepad window.
It doesn't.

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;;test of WinActivate

;;INSTRUCTIONS

;; Open two Notepads
;; (both wintitles = Untitled - Notepad)


;; run this script.

WinActivate, Untitled - Notepad
IfWinActive, Untitled - Notepad
WinGet, notepad1_pid, PID
msgbox notepad1_pid = %notepad1_pid%

WinActivate, Untitled - Notepad,, ahk_pid %notepad1_pid%
IfWinActive, Untitled - Notepad,,ahk_pid %notepad1_pid%
WinGet, notepad2_pid, PID
msgbox notepad2_pid = %notepad2_pid%


;; Please, excuse the lack of indentation.
;; Apparently it is not supported by this web engine.

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ExcludeTitle doesn't support ahk_pid and similar things. All it does is what the help file says: "Windows whose titles include this value will not be considered." The reason for this is that the added code size doesn't seem justified given how rarely ExcludeTitle is used.

One way to have more control over which window gets activated is with WinActivateBottom.

Some other AHK Window functions seem to support ahk_pid as an argument to ExcludeTitle even though it is not mentioned in the help file.

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I don't think it's possible because nearly all commands call the same ExcludeTitle code. If you happen to have an example, I'll definitely look into it and get back to you.

I checked my code and found that I used ahk_pid argument for ExcludeTitle parameter with WinGet.

Based on what you said, however, it seems that my code works correctly not because of what I submit to ExcludeTitle, but just because it works anyway.

Thanks for clarifying.

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