Interact with main window while modal window is active

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Published on 2009-05-18T13:45:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 6:04 UTC
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I want to be able to interact with main window of applications like Firefox or Word, while modal window is active.

What I mean by interact is to:

Copy text
Move window
Close window (by pressing x button)

Are these possible under Windows environment?

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