import ctypes


def get_active_window_title():
    """Get the title of the currently active window"""
    try:
        hwnd = ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow()
        length = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW(hwnd)
        buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
        ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW(hwnd, buffer, length + 1)
        return buffer.value
    except:  # noqa: E722 - preserve original broad exception style
        return ""