Maximize window and bring it in front with powershell

Question

Is there a way to bring a window in front from powershell? I tried this to hide all windows (working) and bring me the powershell back (not working)

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Answer 1

The PowerShell Community Extensions has a cmdlet to assist with this. You use it like so:

Set-ForegroundWindow (Get-Process PowerShell).MainWindowHandle

or

Set-ForegroundWindow (Get-Process -id $pid).MainWindowHandle

To activate/show a window try this (assuming you're on PowerShell 2.0):

$sig = '[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern bool ShowWindowAsync(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);'
Add-Type -MemberDefinition $sig -name NativeMethods -namespace Win32
Stop-Process -Name Notepad -ea 0;Notepad.exe
$hwnd = @(Get-Process Notepad)[0].MainWindowHandle
# Minimize window
[Win32.NativeMethods]::ShowWindowAsync($hwnd, 2)
# Restore window
[Win32.NativeMethods]::ShowWindowAsync($hwnd, 4)
Stop-Process -Name Notepad