diff --git a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.test.ts b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.test.ts
index 70f95552a2..a5a718a994 100644
--- a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.test.ts
+++ b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.test.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import type { BinaryTarget } from "../domain/binaryTargetTypes.js";
 import { MAX_WINDOWS_WINDOW_PNG_BYTES } from "../domain/native/windowsWindowScreenshot.js";
 import { OwnedFileHandle } from "../filesystem/OwnedFileHandle.js";
 import { RegularFileAdmissionFailure } from "../filesystem/RegularFile.js";
+import * as execution from "./WindowsWindowCaptureExecution.js";
 import {
   captureWindowsWindowScreenshot,
   hashWindowsCaptureExecutable,
@@ -56,6 +57,33 @@ const host = (
   ...overrides,
 });
 
+it("attributes a helper-only close failure to selected-window resources", async () => {
+  const observation = {
+    reason: "Owned capture Job cleanup remains pending",
+    resources: ["capture-run:42"],
+  };
+  const cleanup = vi
+    .spyOn(execution, "retryWindowsCaptureCleanup")
+    .mockResolvedValue(observation);
+  try {
+    const client = new NativeWindowsUiProvider(
+      {},
+      host(),
+      "linux",
+    ).createClient(TARGET);
+    expect(await client.close()).toMatchObject({
+      ok: false,
+      error: {
+        _tag: "AnalysisOutputError",
+        reason: "Selected-window capture resource cleanup remains incomplete.",
+        cleanup: observation,
+      },
+    });
+  } finally {
+    cleanup.mockRestore();
+  }
+});
+
 it("captures only an HWND whose live executable identity matches the active PE target", async () => {
   const captured = await captureWindowsWindowScreenshot(
     TARGET,
diff --git a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.ts b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.ts
index 630bd69ba0..1f00116156 100644
--- a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.ts
+++ b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProvider.ts
@@ -238,10 +238,20 @@ export class NativeWindowsUiProvider implements AnalysisProvider {
         return incomplete.length === 0
           ? ok(null)
           : err(
-              incompleteExecutableIdentityCleanupError({
-                reason: incomplete.map((cleanup) => cleanup.reason).join("; "),
-                resources: incomplete.flatMap((cleanup) => cleanup.resources),
-              }),
+              new AnalysisOutputError(
+                OPERATION,
+                "Selected-window capture resource cleanup remains incomplete.",
+                {
+                  cleanup: {
+                    reason: incomplete
+                      .map((cleanup) => cleanup.reason)
+                      .join("; "),
+                    resources: incomplete.flatMap(
+                      (cleanup) => cleanup.resources,
+                    ),
+                  },
+                },
+              ),
             );
       },
     };
diff --git a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.test.ts b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.test.ts
index ecd2b83747..c04518e855 100644
--- a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.test.ts
+++ b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.test.ts
@@ -24,3 +24,21 @@ it("requires affirmative inspected capture support on the shipped Windows archit
     }))[0],
   ).toMatchObject({ available: false, reason: "artifact unavailable" });
 });
+
+it("keeps retryable admission unavailable until a fresh successful snapshot", () => {
+  let readiness: WindowsWindowCaptureLoadResult = {
+    available: false,
+    reason: "Private runtime admission is still unresolved",
+    retryable: true,
+  };
+  const first = nativeWindowsUiCapabilities("win32", "x64", () => readiness);
+  expect(first[0]).toMatchObject({
+    available: false,
+    reason: readiness.reason,
+  });
+  readiness = loaded();
+  expect(
+    nativeWindowsUiCapabilities("win32", "x64", () => readiness)[0],
+  ).toMatchObject({ available: true });
+  expect(first[0]).toMatchObject({ available: false });
+});
diff --git a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.ts b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.ts
index b6de55e016..ca6258fe42 100644
--- a/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.ts
+++ b/src/windows/NativeWindowsUiProviderMetadata.ts
@@ -23,9 +23,7 @@ export const nativeWindowsUiCapabilities = (
 ): readonly CapabilityDescriptor[] => {
   const loaded =
     platform === "win32" && architecture === "x64" ? load() : undefined;
-  const captureReady =
-    loaded?.available === true ||
-    (loaded?.available === false && loaded.retryable === true);
+  const captureReady = loaded?.available === true;
   const availability =
     platform === "win32" && architecture === "x64"
       ? captureReady