powershell - get report of all open explorer windows

Question

I want to get a report of all open explorer windows titles and current paths. The current paths part of this is problem is answered here with C#, but I want this for powershell and am not sure how to adapt it. I am not sure how to bring out the window titles part of it.

Could someone please assist.

Answer 1

Sounds to me like you're looking for something like this:

$app = New-Object -COM 'Shell.Application'
$app.Windows() | Select-Object LocationURL

AFAICS the window objects don't have a title property, but you can get that information from Get-Process via the window handle ID:

function Get-WindowTitle($handle) {
  Get-Process |
    Where-Object { $_.MainWindowHandle -eq $handle } |
    Select-Object -Expand MainWindowTitle
}

$app = New-Object -COM 'Shell.Application'
$app.Windows() |
  Select-Object LocationURL, @{n='Title';e={Get-WindowTitle $_.HWND}}