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glacialfury: could use more context on when and why this is useful.

Finding Components:
When using FindWindow? for getting the window handle to a component it's always recommend to use the class name instead of the window caption/title.
The following list contains the class names for the main windows of all SharpE components:

SharpBar: TSharpBarMainForm
SharpCenter: TSharpCenterWnd
SharpCore: TSharpCoreMainWnd
SharpDesk: TSharpDeskMainForm
SharpDesk2: TSharpDeskMainWnd
SharpMenu: TSharpEMenuWnd

MuteX Handles:(Checking if a component is already running)
Most Components register a MuteX handle which can be accessed to check if a component is running.

SharpCenter: SharpCenterMutex
SharpCore: SharpCore
SharpDesk: SharpDeskMutex
SharpDocs: SharpDocsMuteX
SharpMenu: SharpMenuMutex
SharpShellServices: SharpShellServicesMutex

to check if a MuteX has been created use the following code:

var
  MH: THandle;
begin
  MH := OpenMutex(MUTEX_ALL_ACCESS, False, 'MutexName');
  if MH <> 0 then ...; // MuteX has been created
  CloseHandle(MH);
end;