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It is very common, after installing a new software in Windows Vista, to be prompted to reboot the computer in order to finish the installation. A lot of times this operation is not necessary at all, since it is just sufficent to restart Explorer to start using the software. Here is a couple of hacks to apply in order to restart Explorer and use your applications at once.
- Press CTRL+ALT+DEL
- Select Start Task Manager.
- In the Task Manager window, click on explorer.exe entry and kill it (end process).
- Open your notepad.
- Type: @echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
explorer.exe - Save the file with extension .bat
- Create a shortcut on the desktop. Every time you need to restart Explorer, just doublke-click on it.
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March 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am
all this did was make my desktop go away. only way to bring back was to goto run and type explorer
March 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Mmm…it is possible. If you use the default Start Menu in Vista try this:
1) Click Start.
2) Now, press and hold the CTRL and SHIFT buttons and right-click in any empty are of the search box.
3) A menu should appear showing you two options, namely Exit Explorer and Properties.
4) Cick Exit Explorer.
5) To launch Explorer again go to Run…, and type Explorer.exe.