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Somehow I got a window which I can't close. It's unclickable, floats above other windows and I don't know which process it belongs to.

Using Process Explorer's crosshair tool does not help, because it identifies the window which is at that monent behind this window. So if a browser is behind it, then crosshair returns the browser process, if the desktop then the desktop, etc.

Is there an other way than process explorer to identify it?

See the screenshot. It's the transparent window with the question mark.

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Tom
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It looks like the ghost icon that appears when you drag a list item in Windows Explorer. That's the icon usually used for a Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file. Were you by any chance dragging a CHM file in Windows Explorer?

If it happens again, try killing explorer.exe and see if it goes away. If you're running the Desktop Window Manager and killing explorer.exe doesn't help, you may want to try forcibly killing the process (not just restarting the service).

There are some instances when an outside action causes focus to be transferred to another application, effectively canceling the drag operation. For some reason, depending on the operation (or possibly the position of the stars and planets), Windows Explorer doesn't realize this, and the "ghost" of the dragged item remains visible.

slickdeveloper
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