diff --git a/advanced-scene-switcher-win.cpp b/advanced-scene-switcher-win.cpp
index 31d2bf6f..8ffa1d7e 100644
--- a/advanced-scene-switcher-win.cpp
+++ b/advanced-scene-switcher-win.cpp
@@ -61,7 +61,16 @@ void GetWindowList(vector<string>& windows)
 void GetCurrentWindowTitle(string& title)
 {
 	HWND window = GetForegroundWindow();
-	//DWORD id;
+	DWORD id;
+	GetWindowThreadProcessId(window, &id);
+	/*GetWindowText will freeze if the control it is reading was created in another thread. 
+	It does not directly read the control.Instead, 
+	it waits for the thread that created the control to process a WM_GETTEXT message.
+	So if that thread is frozen in a WaitFor... call you have a deadlock.*/
+	if (id == GetCurrentProcessId()) {
+		title = "";
+		return;
+	}
 	GetWindowTitle(window, title);
 }
 
@@ -155,4 +164,4 @@ int getTime()
 int secondsSinceLastInput()
 {
 	return (getTime() - getLastInputTime()) / 1000;
-}
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+}