Maximize a minimized window

Question

_{Wednesday, June 20, 2018 4:06 PM}

I have a window minimized and need to bring it back to maximum. I find the window as below but not sure how it can be maximized. This object $a seems not doing the job. Any other idea? Thanks.

$a = Get-Process | ? { $_.MainWindowTitle -eq 'Microsoft Excel - D:\test\Book1.xlsx' }

PS C:\ $a.length

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_{Wednesday, June 20, 2018 4:12 PM ✅Answered}

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/664020-maximize-an-open-window-with-powershell-win7

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_{Wednesday, June 20, 2018 8:33 PM ✅Answered}

You can invoke a Maximize like this:

$proc = Get-Process | ? { $_.MainWindowTitle -eq 'Planning.xlsx  -  Read-Only - Excel' }


# Borrowed from https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2015/12/26/weekend-scripter-manage-window-placement-by-using-pinvoke/
Add-Type @"
    using System;
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
    public class myWindow {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        public static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);
    }

"@

Function Maximize-Window() {
    Param(
        [System.Diagnostics.Process]$Process
    )
    $ShowMaximized = 3
    [void][myWindow]::ShowWindow($Process.MainWindowHandle, $ShowMaximized)
}

Maximize-Window -Process $proc