If for some reason, you need to restart your Windows Explorer, you would normally follow the usual way of terminating the explorer process in Windows 7 or Windows Vista is through the Task Manager.
Restart Explorer
You would start the Task Manager. Select explorer.exe from the processes, and click on the End Process button.
This would kill explorer.exe.
Next, you’d click on File tab, choose New task (Run…), type explorer.exe in the box and click OK.
This will restart explorer.exe.
Alternatively, if you find that your explorer.exe freezes frequently or you are really into experimenting and testing customizations, creating a desktop shortcut to restart explorer would definitely be a more convenient option!
To do so, copy-paste the following in a Notepad and save it as (All files) as a
.bat file. Name it as
RestartExplorer.bat, if you wish!
@echo off
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
Thats it!
Windows 10/8 offers the context menu option to Restart Explorer in its Task Manager.
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