WinSetTitle

Changes the title of the specified window.

WinSetTitle, NewTitle
WinSetTitle, WinTitle, WinText, NewTitle , ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

Parameters

NewTitle

The new title for the window. If this is the only parameter given, the Last Found Window will be used.

WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

If each of these is blank or omitted, the Last Found Window will be used. Otherwise, specify for WinTitle a window title or other criteria to identify the target window and/or for WinText a substring from a single text element of the target window (as revealed by the included Window Spy utility).

ExcludeTitle and ExcludeText can be used to exclude one or more windows by their title or text. Their specification is similar to WinTitle and WinText, except that ExcludeTitle does not recognize any criteria other than the window title.

Window titles and text are case-sensitive. By default, hidden windows are not detected and hidden text elements are detected, unless changed with DetectHiddenWindows and DetectHiddenText. By default, a window title must start with the specified WinTitle or ExcludeTitle to be a match, unless changed with SetTitleMatchMode.

Remarks

A change to a window's title might be merely temporary if the application that owns the window frequently changes the title.

WinMove, WinGetActiveStats, WinGetActiveTitle, WinGetText, ControlGetText, WinGetPos, WinSet

Examples

Changes the title of Notepad. This example may fail on Windows 11 or later, as it requires the classic version of Notepad.

WinSetTitle, Untitled - Notepad, , This is a new title

Opens Notepad, waits until it is active and changes its title. This example may fail on Windows 11 or later, as it requires the classic version of Notepad.

Run, notepad.exe
WinWaitActive, Untitled - Notepad
WinSetTitle, This is a new title ; Use the window found by WinWaitActive.

Opens the main window, waits until it is active and changes its title.

#Persistent
ListVars
WinWaitActive, ahk_class AutoHotkey
WinSetTitle, This is a new title ; Use the window found by WinWaitActive.