[header] How to get rid of a window that won't close in windows xp [title] Identify the program that has opened the window. [step] This information is located in the title bar, directly above " file edit view.. " it is generally found in the " name-application " format. The example here shows " minesweeper " the part after the hyphen (wordpad) is the application. 
[title] Click on " file " or " game ". [step] Then, click " exit " in the drop down box.