Problem with closing and moving windows in Vista

[summerchase]

Hi. Has anyone ever seen a problem with Windows Vista where you can't close a window with the X, nor can you move a small window by dragging?

Any answers?

[AmberJain]

Hello summerchase,

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About your question:
Does the window (that cannot be closed) has a X button. Many programs simply do not have X button to close. If it has, then the application is either not responding or it is refusing to close due to some bug/intended internal coding of program. You can try running task manager and then right click the process and click "End task" (or something like that).
In any case, I can only think of a solution if you post more information about the type of program that you are trying to close, your basic system configuration etc.


Thanks......
AmbrNewlearner

[summerchase]

Thanx for the response Ambrnewlearner.
The problem with closing with the x, and not being able to drag windows happens with any window I have open on any program. I am running Windows Vista. It seems to be a problem in te OS since it is affecting all open windows. The systems info is:

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name AL-PC
System Manufacturer HP-Pavilion
System Model RQ407AA-ABA a1748x
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 5.04, 12/15/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name Al-PC\Al
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 1.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 894 MB
Available Physical Memory 135 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 604 MB
Page File Space 1.17 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

Thanx for taking a look

[Nepomuk]

There, I have no idea, why that won't work (had a similar problem with Linux recently, but the solution must be completely different, as the architecture of those OSes in that sense is), but I've renamed your thread, so that it might attract more of the right attention.

Greetings,
Nepomuk (Moderator)

[Studlyami]

If you have visual studios installed you can use the program spy++ (it may only work in VS2008 for vista) and see if your window is receiving the close command. There are other programs that work like spy++ like uuSpy or WinID, but I haven't used any of these before. Have you recently updated anything in vista or have made a hardware change? Try to boot into safe mode and see if you can't close the window in safe mode. While these might not solve the problem it may help identify the cause.