Windows 10: How do I regain the funcionality of the X button to close a windows program?

I do not know what all programs this affects, but the one I have problems with is Notepad. It used to be, when I was done with whatever in Notepad, I could click the X button the one in the upper right corner of the program, to close it. It would ask if I wanted to save any changes. The options would be to save, not to save, or to cancel the close Now, however, when I click the x button. it does something. It closes the window, but not the program? but the program is no longer running as far as I can tell. so when I open up the same document I just closed, it ope

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Way to change background colour of min,max,close x buttons in Firefox

I know your issue is solved, but this is for information only. So if one goes the CSS route, it is possible to change the caption button icons and their backgrounds and also the hover colors, to have slightly more contrast (Firefox already contains the High-Contrast icons, but I have no idea why it doesn't have some option for the user to set them). Code:

nb: this only works when show "Title Bar" is disabled in "Customise Toolbar".

 

Funcions not working.

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

I understand the inconvenience that you are unable to access programs, functions and apps in Windows 10, we will help you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to try the below troubleshooting steps and check:

Method 1:

• 
  Press CTRL+Shift+ESC, to open the
  Task manager.
  
• 
  Click File > Run New Task.
  
• 
  Make sure you have a check mark beside “Create this task with administrative privileges”
  
• 
  Type Powershell.
  
• 
  Type the following in the Powershell prompt:
  

$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml'; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest


6. Close the Powershell window.

7. Reboot/Restart the computer.

Method 2:

Follow the below steps:

• 
  From the Lock screen, click on
  Power button.
  
• 
  Press and hold the Shift key from the Keyboard and Click on
  Restart and try to enter the Safe mode.
  

Kindly try to start your computer in Safe mode from the Windows Recovery Environment.

Please refer to the below steps to start the computer in Safe mode.

• After your PC restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot
  > Advanced options > Startup Settings >Restart.
• After your PC restarts, select a startup setting as Safe Mode with Networking by pressing the corresponding number.

Once you have entered into the Safe mode then, open Command Prompt and enable Built in Administrator.

Follow the below steps to enable Built in Administrator:

• 
  Open Command Prompt from Windows Recovery Environment.
  
• 
  Copy and paste the below command and press Enter.
  

• net user administrator /active:yes

3. Close the Command Prompt

4. Try to login though Built in Administrator and change the earlier password or you can create new user account.

Refer the below link to create the new Local user account.

Create a local user account in Windows 10

You can revert back from the above new user account

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of this issue, we will be happy to help you.

 

Why did the startup window get cleared?

I didn't missed any step, the list was gone and gone , even after using lot of programs the programs were not listed in that list.