Window Filter Module

Window Filter module has a list of all windows created in the system at the moment and allows performing various actions on windows: filter windows, hide/unhide window, enable a disabled window, close window.

To perform main actions with window:

• select a window in the list;
• popup the right-button (context) menu and select the appropriate command (Close window/Close process/Show window/Enable window/Hide window).
  

Using filters

The "Filters" section contains the "black list" of window titles (captions). The process owning the window with caption contains any of the "black list" string items (filters) will be terminated automatically as soon as they are found.

Notes:

• the caption based SSM window filtering should not be confused with the popup windows blocking in an internet browser. SSM does not prevent windows from opening but only closes them in accordance with the list.
• the Window Filter at this point does not support wildcards (*,?) for the "black list" items.
• the "black list" strings are case insensitive, i.e. the letter "R" in a string (for example) is equal to "r".
• each filter item in the list is input as a single string.
• the "black list" string items must consist of three or more symbols.

Example:

If you want to prevent the Outlook Express program from running, you may add the string "exp" to the "black list". However you should take into account that the better you define the "black list" item (the longer is the substring to be found in a caption) the less probable would be unwanted blocking of programs.

For example if you created the list item as described above then along with Outlook Express (as desired) the Internet Explorer program (unwanted) and some others would also be blocked. To make the filtering more specific you should specify the filter as "express" instead of just "exp" in this case.