Great tutorial for using direct message passing to control windows apps. It\'s for WSH, but the same code should work elsewhere.
http://home.att.net/~geekStuff/wshAvoidingSendkeysPage.htm
Further perusal of the site above landed this page:
http://home.att.net/~wshvbs/abstracts_GeekStuff.htm
Lots of WSH tricks like creating SHELLHOOKS and stuff.
AND this window browser (the website UI is slightly cumbersome...)
http://home.att.net/~wshvbs/wshWinViewUtilityPage.htm