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Does anyone know if it would be possible to use AutoIt as a tool which would allow you to run multiple instances of Outlook? I know there was a tool created by Jason Geffner called ExtraOutlook, which gives this abiliity but if it is at all possible I would rather do it through some AutoIt code which does something simlilar to ExtraOutlook. Jason posted a great in-depth post of what Outlook does at startup to prevent multiple instances from running at the same time here: http://malwareanalysis.com/CommunityServer/blogs/geffner/archive/2007/08/10/234.aspx. Does AutoIt have the ability to mask or change the window name for an existing open window for a given class name?

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To change the title of a window please see Function WinSetTitle.

You could use something like this to change "Microsoft Outlook" in the title to anything else but keep the rest of the title intact:

AutoItSetOption ("WinTitleMatchMode",2)
$sOldTitle = WinGetTitle("Microsoft Outlook")
ConsoleWrite("Old Title: " & $sOldTitle & @CRLF)
$sNewTitle = StringReplace($sOldTitle,"Microsoft Outlook","MSO")
ConsoleWrite("New Title: " & $sNewTitle & @CRLF)
$RC = WinSetTitle("Microsoft Outlook","",$sNewTitle)
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