How do I remove an "orphaned" window from a closed application?

Hi Carolyn,

Thanks for the information, but maybe I didn't clearly explain what happened. I had the Screen Sharing app open, and then I properly closed it down by quitting the application. But one of its windows remained on the desktop. I went into Activity monitor, and the Screen Sharing app wasn't listed in the process list at all. So I'm guessing that this window isn't owned by the Screen Sharing app itself, but from some other process that was spawned by the Screen Sharing app that didn't close when I shut down the Screen Sharing app. Granted, this situation doesn't come up very often, but I've also seen it happen with Norton Antivirus, if I dismount a volume while there's a popup window doing a "scan on mount", with the result that the "scan on mount" window doesn't go away. So given that the process with the "friendly" app name no longer appears in Activity monitor, can you suggest any way to determine which of the running processes "owns" the still-present window?

Thanks,

Ken

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for the suggestions. The red button in Activity Monitor probably would work, if I knew the name of the process that owned the window. But whatever that process is, it's not the one with the name of the Screen Sharing app that caused it to appear, because the Screen Sharing app no longer appears in Activity Monitor's process list. I did try restarting the Screen Sharing app and closing it, thinking that it might be able to reconnect to the window orphaned from its last invocation, but this didn't work. I still think that what probably happened is that the Screen Sharing app spawned a new process to handle the connection process, and it's this process (whose name I don't know) that's the owner of the window.

Ken