SetWindowTextA function (winuser.h)

Changes the text of the specified window’s title bar (if it has one). If the specified window is a control, the text of the control is changed. However, SetWindowText cannot change the text of a control in another application.

Syntax

Parameters

A handle to the window or control whose text is to be changed.

The new title or control text.

Return value

If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.

If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

If the target window is owned by the current process, SetWindowText causes a WM_SETTEXT message to be sent to the specified window or control. If the control is a list box control created with the WS_CAPTION style, however, SetWindowText sets the text for the control, not for the list box entries.

To set the text of a control in another process, send the WM_SETTEXT message directly instead of calling SetWindowText.

The SetWindowText function does not expand tab characters (ASCII code 0x09). Tab characters are displayed as vertical bar (|) characters.

Examples

The winuser.h header defines SetWindowText as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.

Window Title Changer

This Page talks about a Free Software Download to change selected application’s Window Title. This Free Software can be used to change title of any Window or Screen of an Application which is running on the Windows computer and is visible in Foreground. You can even change the title text of minimized windows using this free Window Title Changer Software. Change Window Title of Internet Explorer, Firefox or any other software with this software download for windows.

How to Change Title of a Window

This paragraph describes how to change title of a Window using Window Title Changer.

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Window Title Changer is a Free Software designed to run on Windows Operating Systems. We have run the software on Windows XP and Windows 7 and it should run fine on other Windows Operating Systems as well. Download Window Title Changer Software and save it to any folder location and install it. The Software download is in a setup.exe file which on installation will install the software ready to run and change Window Titles.

Window Title Changer on Dual Monitor Computer

The Software has been tested on a Dual Monitor Computer as well. In case of Dual Monitor Computer, the Window Title Changer will list Window titles irrespective of whether the softwares are visible on Main Monitor or on Secondary Monitor. You can even find a minimized window in the software and icons of the applications are also displayed to help you to locate the Window for which you wish to change the title. In case a Window has been moved to the Second Monitor, you will notice that in the list of Windows, the Window location will be significantly different from the location of Windows on the Main Monitor. You can even use our Dual Monitor Software to move windows to and from the Main Monitor to Second Monitor and vice versa using a configurable shortcut keys.

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Now with Keyboard and Mouse automation software, you can easily automate any window on computer screen. You can easily record mouse clicks and easily change any of the simulated mouse click. The mouse automation software records window title and window class name as description for the mouse click. The description of ever mouse click can be changed and you can even use non english text to easily remember the mouse click. The Window Class Name and Window Title are set as Mouse Click description so that you can easily remember on which window, the mouse is supposed to click automatically according to the script.

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How do I change the Title Bar color of ALL Windows 10 Explorer windows?

I’m running Win 10 Pro v1511 build 10586.318

I’ve seen variations of this questions asked many times, and the solution of running the Win 10 Fall Build to have colored title bars included when turning on «Show color on Start, taskbar, action center, and title bar». As you can see above I have the correct version.

However I’m not sure if this is working correctly with my system or if it’s a bug.

What happens is that when I enable the feature, all the applied items do indeed change color, including Explorer windows, but only when in the taskbar. If I hover over Explorer windows in the taskbar, they all show with the enabled color. But as soon as I bring multiple Explorer Windows to the desktop, only the active Window is colored. I’m hoping this isn’t how they implemented it, because if so it’s a major oversight. The ability to have all title bars colored is not just an esthetic thing — it’s a functional feature for productivity. I’m using multiple monitors for my workstation. I’ll have many Explorer windows open and showing on the desktop — sometimes four spread across the two screens. I’ll be re-arranging them frequently. If I’m going to grab an Explorer window and the title bar is clear on the inactive one, then many times I just miss the title bar and it swipes without grabbing it. Maybe this seems like a small issue, but if it’s your workstation and you’re doing this frequently it’s a real pain. The only colored bar is the active one. If anything it should be the other way around — clear on active and colored on inactive.

When I say it’s not just an esthetic thing, I should actually say it isn’t an esthetic thing at all. The stock solid colors they give you are abysmal. I went through the rather convoluted method of modifying Theme Files to create an additional aero color theme that enables the color mixer. However that doesn’t work. If I use the Intensity or Hue sliders it does nothing. The one single Explorer window with a colored border sits like a taunting insult, while the others remain white.

Please tell me there is a way to enable color on all Explorer title bars. Or to at least have a black line or something else separating the title bar from the menu bar and the rest of the white window.

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First of all, please note that this account is not the one I used to post the original message here. My message was posted with SalFrank77. this one is posted with SalFranks77 — note Franks as in plural.

Today I went to log into the Microsoft account I made the op with here, (Live account — not 365) and it told me my account was suspended for a ToS violation — spam related. I discovered this was because I use TorGuard VPN that uses shared ip addresses. I disconnected and attempted to login via my normal ip. But because I was attempting to then log in to the banned account, it then banned my current non VPN ip address.

Two phone calls later to Microsoft and a remote session, the technician confirmed my ip to allow me to create a new account — resetting the old one couldn’t be done for another 30 days he told me.

I went to this thread to see what changes I needed to do for the color issue. I did exactly as you advised and applied the changes and rebooted. When the computer rebooted I was faced with a login screen, but this time it wasn’t asking for the local PC account, the one I had created when I installed Windows 10, but it was asking me to sign in with my live account, the one I had to create earlier today just hours before. I had saved that info locally into my Keepass program on the locked out PC, before my daily backup. So I’ve had to go to another computer and create another account.

This is extremely frustrating. I’ve had to install Win 10 four times in three days including initial install. Now I am faced with a fifth installation if I can’t recover my account. I have never specified that Windows should ask me for a password at reboot. I have never specified that my Windows live account be associated with this machine.
So I am unable to proceed with fixing the original problem I came here to post.

Since I installed Windows three days ago I have spent the last three days full time troubleshooting problems including the aforementioned four installs — one for the original upgrade; two to wipe the upgrade for a fresh clean Win 10 install; third install because I had been locked out of the computer as it was asking for a password for my local PC account — even though I had specified no password at install. My only option was to re-install; Four to install as ISO off of a DVD to remedy a corrupted install and boot problem . now if I can’t get in I am looking at a fifth install.

Windows 10 was supposed to be simple and faster. So far for me it’s been one headache after another, and a full time job troubleshooting

Window Title Changer

I thought this is useful to share with you all..for anyone who has problem in switching between windows that have the same title and class and difficult in identifying it. Since I’m not yet expert in using ahk_class..I use this software to change the windows title so that it will be very easy to accomplish most window tasks.

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while running this will enforce the window titles you choose. so even if an application tries to change the window title, this program will change it back almost instantly.

Press f8 on any window you’ve got in the foreground to set the title of the window you’re looking at currently

press alt-shit-z to pause the program (only needed if it gets out of control, which it doesn’t)

HotKeySet(«!+Z», «TogglePause»)
HotKeySet(««, «Doitnow»)

; Main Program Loop
While 1
For $enforcedelay = 1 to 50
If WinActive(«WinWatcher») Then
UpdateGUI()
EndIf
Sleep(50)
Next
EnforceTitles()
WEnd

Func CreateGUI()
Global $listview, $settitlebutton, $refreshbutton, $item[1000], $input1, $msg
Local $i

GUICreate(«WinWatcher», 400, 300, 100, 200, -1, $WS_EX_ACCEPTFILES)
GUISetBkColor(0xCCCCFFFF) ; will change background color

$listview = GUICtrlCreateListView(«Window Name |Window Handle|Hotkey «, 10, 10, 380, 150);,$LVS_SORTDESCENDING)
$settitlebutton = GUICtrlCreateButton(«Set Title», 310, 170, 70, 20)
$refreshbutton = GUICtrlCreateButton(«Refresh List», 10, 200, 70, 20)

$input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput(«», 10, 170, 300)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DROPACCEPTED) ; to allow drag and dropping
GUISetState()

Func IsVisible($handle)
If BitAnd( WinGetState($handle), 2 ) Then
Return 1
Else
Return 0
EndIf

Func UpdateGUI()
Global $selectedhwnd
Local $msg[4],$i
$msg = GUIGetMsg(1)
If $msg[0] = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then
MsgBox(0, «», «Please send a donation if this helps you!»)
Exit
EndIf

For $i = 1 to $WinTitles[0][0]
If ($msg[0] <> 0 And $msg[0] = $item[$i]) Then
GUICtrlSetData($Input1, $WinTitles[$i][0])
$selectedhwnd = $WinTitles[$i][1]
EndIf
Next

If $msg[0] = $settitlebutton Then
WinSetTitle($selectedhwnd,»»,GUICtrlRead($Input1))
RefreshGUI()
EndIf

If $msg[0] = $refreshbutton Then
RefreshGUI()
EndIf

Func RefreshGUI()
Global $WinTitles[1000][1000]
$WinTitles = WinList()

For $i = 1 to $WinTitles[0][0]
; Only display visble windows that have a title
If $item[$i] <> «» Then
GUICtrlDelete($item[$i])
EndIf
If $WinTitles[$i][1] <> «» AND IsVisible($WinTitles[$i][1]) Then
$Item[$i]=GUICtrlCreateListViewItem($WinTitles[$i][0] & «|» & $WinTitles[$i][1] & «|»,$listview)
EndIf
Next

Func EnforceTitles()
Local $i,$x,$tempwindows[1000][1000]

$tempwindows = WinList()
For $i = 1 to $tempwindows[0][0]
If ($tempwindows[$i][1] <> «» And IsVisible($tempwindows[$i][1])) Then
For $x = 1 to $WinTitles[0][0]
If ($WinTitles[$x][1] <> «» And IsVisible($WinTitles[$x][1])) Then
If ($tempwindows[$i][1] = $WinTitles[$x][1]) Then
If ($tempwindows[$i][0] <> $Wintitles[$x][0]) Then
;MsgBox(0,»info»,»Match hwnd=» & $tempwindows[$i][1] & » tempwindows » & $tempwindows[$i][0] & » wintitles » & $WinTitles[$x][0])
;MsgBox(0,»info»,»Fixing title of window with hwnd=» & $tempwindows[$i][1] & » from » & $tempwindows[$i][0] & » to » & $WinTitles[$x][0])
WinSetTitle($WinTitles[$x][1],»»,$WinTitles[$x][0])
EndIf
EndIf
EndIf
Next
EndIf
Next
EndFunc

Func Doitnow()
local $temphandle, $temptitle
$temphandle = WinGetHandle(«»)
$temptitle = WinGetTitle($temphandle)
$temptitle = InputBox(«Rename Window» & $temphandle, «Enter new window name and click ok «,$temptitle,»»,300,140)
WinSetTitle($temphandle,»»,$temptitle)
RefreshGUI()
;MsgBox(0,»Current Window Info»,»This window’s handle is » & $temphandle & » and title is now » & $temptitle)
EndFunc

Func TogglePause()
$Paused = NOT $Paused
While $Paused
sleep(100)
ToolTip(‘Script is «Paused»‘,0,0)
WEnd
ToolTip(«»)
EndFunc