I haven't been able to minimize any windows for several weeks. But I found the solution!

Since I use many programs simultaneously, this has cramped my style. The yellow minimize button hasn't worked, nor has Command-M or double-clicking the title bar (which is enabled), not even choosing Minimize in the Window menu!  I've tried everything -- removing startup apps and plug-ins that seemed to have been orphaned, archiving and trashing tens of thousands of files, but nothing helped. Finally I remembered that I had enabled "Minimize windows into application icon" in the Dock System Preference pane a month ago. I unclicked that option and voilà ! All of my windows were able to minimize again!
I haven't used that "Minimize windows into application icon" option for many years, but I have no idea why enabling it prevented my Finder and application windows from minimizing. Every time I clicked the yellow button, the button darkened and a spinning beach ball appeared for two or three seconds, then the yellow became bright again and the window remained on the desktop.
I'm just putting this message here in case anyone else encounters the same problem.

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