ActivityWatch / ActivityWatch/activitywatch

ActivityWatch (aw-watcher-window) can't trace windows tittles nor applications

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Description

- [x] I am on the [latest](https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch/releases/latest) ActivityWatch version.
- [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

- **OS name and version**: Windows 10 Pro + 22H2
- **ActivityWatch version**: v0.12.2

## Describe the bug
ActivityWatch (aw-watcher-window) can't trace tittles on word, pdf viewer, winrar, winzip files, other king of files, if those files are open using "XY Explorer" instead of default windows file explorer.

## To Reproduce
1. Go to 'XY Explorer', 2. Click on 'any folder', 3. Scroll down to 'any file, 4. See error: look into ActivityWatch Buckets and the program or file previusly opened is not detected/traced/watched by aw-watcher-window

## Expected behavior
trace/ log the window title and record its event

## Documentation

## Additional context
This problem won't occur on Version: v0.12.1

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