| 摘要 |
A window locator is provided for finding a particular window among a plurality of windows running different applications or different instances of a single application. A linked list is maintained with parameters for each window open, whether active or minimized, and updated whenever a window is opened or closed, or when a new command. is started within a window. For each active or minimized window, the linked list contains: the command or application name being run or last typed within each window; the parameters, such as a filename or uniform resource locator, for the command or application; the current working directory for the command or application; and the times tamp-for the start of the command or application. In response to a user request specifying the command or application, name, parameters, or times tamp of the desired window, the window locator traverses the linked list and filters the entries for candidate windows utilizing the user-specified search criteria. Candidate windows are sorted and displayed in a manner which may be specified by the user.
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