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I am thinking if there are handles of the same value ?
To clarify my question, let’s say I open Notepad, type in some text, save it and then close Notepad. If I repeat this a thousand times (or even more), will I ever have a chance to see the same window handle (HWND) value being used for the Notepad main window that was used the first time? If so, why?
By the pigeonhole principal, yes, they can’t be unique.
Due to the compatibility with 32-bit processes (WoW64), handles cannot use the entire 64-bits even on 64-bit OS — think of a 64-bit process passing a handle to a 32-bit child, or getting a handle to a window opened by a 32-bit process. This makes their true space pretty small, and thus reuse very likely.