Windows XP Mode in Win7 off-screen?

When I open Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 Enterprise the icon appears on the task bar but it can not be made to open on-screen, nor can it be closed by using the close-window selection on the drop-down screen.
Hitting alt/tab shows it with the other running programs, but clicking on it only returns to the desktop.
Clicking on the task-bar icon causes a rapid transparent box to move to the lower right side of the screen very rapidly, clicking again makes the same transparent box to move rapidly to the task-bar icon.
Could it be that the window somehow moved off the screen? If so, how to get it back. I've tried deleting the .vsv file, but that does not cause any apparent change.
Anyone heard of this before - and hopefully a fix?
Aboonah

No help there...and this is a single-monitor set-up.
Another thing I experienced since posting the original question: I tried to simply open the application I need to run - by clicking on it in the Virtual XP Applications folder.
The application opened and ran. I could read and write data, but could not print. When I attempted to print, the application crashed each time.
I also cannot close the XP virtual machine icon on the task-bar. I have to use task-manager to close the process.
Aboonah

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