📎 AI Summary:
The original poster seeks a simple script to enhance program launching on Windows by managing existing instances more efficiently—bringing active, minimized, or running programs to the front without launching duplicate processes. They find the current behavior inefficient due to delays and unnecessary process handling. A responder suggests using Windows API calls from user32.dll and related tools to monitor and control window states, indicating that creating such a script is feasible with knowledge of Windows API programming.
blksith0

blksith0

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When pinning a program to the taskbar, when you launch it it runs the actual executable then the application either runs for the first time, or if it's already running but minimized to the tray, it has to handle that 2nd exe instance -> terminate the second one -> un-minimize the currently running one.

What I've always wanted is a simple script that works as such:
launch-open-script
Code: 
if(program.exe is running and has active window)
    switch to active window (or bring it to the front)
if(program.exe is running && minimized in tray)
    untray application and bring to front
else (program is not running)
    launch executable // which is default behavior for pinned things in task-bar

This behavior in most cases already happens, but it's inefficient because the running program has to deal with the second instance and there's usually a delay for some reason.
I don't know the windows API but how hard does this sound to create?
 

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