A possible fix for non-minimizable windows

Feb 01, '06 06:18:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I came upon a problem once of not being able to minimize windows into the dock. This problem occured several times and appeared to me to be random. I searched my guts out online trying to find an answer to my problem with no results. I even contacted Apple and still got nothing. So I just lived with it for a while. Whenever it happened, any window that was currently open would not minimize, but newly opened windows would. So I would just have to close whatever windows were open and re-open them, which was a pain.

Then one day I figured it out. The problem is caused by some programs that display full-screen and change the resolution, namely video games. Whenever I exit these types of program, the problem occurs. The fix I found was to open up any QuickTime movie, hit Command-F to go to fullscreen mode, then close the movie. After that, voila, the problem was solved.

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