1996 Buick Century

Could be switches, but most likely bad motors inside the doors. Not likely to be a fuse.

The reason I think it is fuses is because of the fact that both windows don't operate. Unless the car was bought with broken power windows

a wire is either loose or gone bad

That's why I suggested possibly switches. In that case, the switches in the driver's door. GM power window motors fail at a fairly high rate, so it would not surprise me for a '96 to have two bad motors.

a wire is either loose or gone bad

Possibly, but not likely.

Well my Saturn doesn't have power windows, so I wouldn't know. lol

Two of my GM cars have two windows in each not working and it is NOT the fuse. The mechanisms are crap.

I have experienced two real cases I know for sure where the wire was broken inside the plastic cover. One was in my old buick where the wire to one the doors was broken. Another in my new toyoto hilux. After two years I had problem with the control computer and it turned out to be a known problem with the wires. They were probably too thin and they were broken in more than one place in areas were nothing was touching them. The wires were replaced and no problem since.

Since it's both windows, I go along with the "switch in the driver's door" idea.

A ground for the passenger window is carried through the driver's switch. I've had that part of the switch fail, killing both windows.

-- pj