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How to: Start and kill explorer

29 May 2008 685 views 27 Comments



You might need to kill explorer if it stops responding. You would probably open up Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) or even restart if you were really dumb. The clean way to close explorer is like this:

Go to Start > Turn Off Computer and hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift and press Cancel.

The start bar and desktop will disappear. To start explorer again and get them back, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to bring up the Task Manager, click New task and type explorer. Press enter to run it.

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  • wisher said:

    On Vista (I don’t know if this trick works also with XP) there is a clean way to kill explorer.
    Open the start menu and hit CTRL+SHIFT+right mouse button on a empty space of the menu.
    It will appear the EXIT EXPLORER option.

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  • Eerik said:

    @ wisher

    It doesn’t work with XP. :(

  • wisher said:

    I’m sorry, seems you’ve to upgrade to Vista ;-)

    wisher’s last blog post..Brand new Google icon, trouble coming?

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