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

Hi,
Every now and then, I end up with an "orphaned" window on my desktop, left over from a closed application. Currently, I have a login window from the Screen Sharing application that's been spinning the spoked progress wheel next to "Connecting..." for an hour or so. I've already closed the Screen Sharing app, so it's not a straightforward thing to go into Activity Monitor and kill the process. I know that I can reboot the machine to fix this, but I'm wondering if someone might know how to fix this sort of thing without a reboot. Is there some app that I can use that can tell me what process is the "owner" of this window? Since the progress wheel is spinning and I can drag the window around, it would seem that some process has control of it, but I just don't know which one.
Thanks,
Ken

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

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